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Updated: June 24, 2025
His contempt, no doubt, for the Scarlet Pimpernel and his followers would be increased tenfold. Then at last the question of the disguise was effectually dismissed. Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Anthony Dewhurst had settled their differences of opinion by solemnly agreeing to represent two over-grimy and overheated coal-heavers.
Dishonest people, whether they are kings or coal-heavers, always make a place more difficult to fill for those who come after them. "Well! then set aside the blue," said Lady Foljambe, with a slight pout. "Margaret, what lackest thou?" Mrs Margaret looked wistfully at the fourteen-shilling crimson, and then manfully chose the six-and-eightpenny green.
Then we returned to the steamer for a late luncheon, and the bevy of animated coal-heavers were still at work. The day following was our last on the steamer, and our way lay through one portion of the Inland Sea, meaning a narrow waterway, the shores of which were visible on both sides.
They had so little, she thought. It was so sad to be ragged and poor. The hang of faded clothes pained her eyes. "And they have to work so hard!" was her only comment. On the street sometimes she would see men working Irishmen with picks, coal-heavers with great loads to shovel, Americans busy about some work which was a mere matter of strength and they touched her fancy.
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