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It was nothing; some of the coal-diggers from the Point going home; he pulled at her petticoat again. "Come to the fire, dear," he said, looking up. Her whole face and neck were hot; she laughed and trembled as if some spasm were upon her. "Do you see?" she cried, trying to force the window open. "Oh, Jemmy, it might be! it might!" Jem was used to his mother's unaccountable whims of mood.
These laborers of the borax mines and mills, like the stokers of ships, and coal-diggers, and blast-furnace hands like thousands and millions of men, killed themselves outright or impaired their strength, and when they were gone or rendered useless others were found to take their places.
The looms were watched by women, most of them bold, tawdry girls of fifteen or sixteen, or lean-jawed women from the hills, wives of the coal-diggers. There was a breathless odour of copperas. As he went from one room to another up through the ascending stories, he had a vague sensation of being followed. Some shadow lurked at times behind the engines, or stole after him in the dark entries.
The looms were watched by women, most of them bold, tawdry girls of fifteen or sixteen, or lean-jawed women from the hills, wives of the coal-diggers. There was a breathless odor of copperas. As he went from one room to another up through the ascending stories, he had a vague sensation of being followed. Some shadow lurked at times behind the engines, or stole after him in the dark entries.
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