dividend-hunter

Updated: May 26, 2025

Dissent on the part of an important north-country Union from some of the most vital machinery of the bill which had been sketched by Wharton personal jealousy and distrust of the mover of the resolution denial of his representative place, and sneers at his kid-gloved attempts to help a class with which he had nothing to do the most violent protest against the servility with which he had truckled to the now effete party of free contract and political enfranchisement and the most passionate assertion that between any Labour party, worthy of the name, and either of the great parties of the past there lay and must lie a gulf of hatred, unfathomable and unquenchable, till Labour had got its rights, and landlord, employer, and dividend-hunter were trampled beneath its heel all these ugly or lurid things emerged with surprising clearness from the torrent of north-country speech.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Marcella