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"It's a plan of my own, for giving a little help to our own clay-cutters and to the stone-cutters in the Isle of Portland, who are shockingly off in the winter sometimes. Here's Trenchard's name down for a good sum it will make him and Free-trade popular, you know." And Mr. Dugdale smiled with the most amiable and innocent Machiavellianism.
Nathanael unfastened the glass-door, not without annoyance; for, unlike his wife, his joy-tithe was not yet due. "What do you want, my good fellow?" "Some o' th' Harpers." "Indeed! Are you after work? You don't look like one of the clay-cutters. Where do you come from?" "I be Darset, I be; but I comed fra Carnwall."
"I persuaded him to change it into a public meeting, and give the clay-cutters many of them Mr. Locke Harper's former people, and some now old and poor a New Year's feast instead. You will see to that, Nathanael?" And she laid her hand on his arm with rather more earnestness than the simple request warranted. Nathanael assented hastily, and spoke of something else.
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