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"Well, I too am only a spectator here," he laughed. "I'm neither fish, flesh nor fowl, nor good red herring." "You were going into the law, weren't you?" I asked. "I remember you said something about it that day we met at Beverly Farms." "Yes, I managed it, after all. Then I went back home to Elkington to try to make a living."
There were many Hutchinses in Elkington, brothers and cousins and uncles and great-uncles, and all were connected with the woollen mills.
Cases of puerperal fever seeming to originate in erysipelas. Elkington, of Birmingham, in Provincial Med. Journal, cited in Am. Journ. Med. Sc. for April, 1844. Six cases in less than a fortnight, seeming to originate in a case of erysipelas. West's Reports, in Brit. and For. Med. Review for October, 1845, and January, 1847.
He turned to me unexpectedly a face of profound melancholy; his expression had in it, oddly, a trace of sternness; and I was somewhat taken aback by this evidence that he was still bearing vicariously the troubles of his client. So deep had been the thought I had apparently interrupted that he did not realize my presence at first. "Oh, it's you, Paret. Yes, I've left Elkington," he said.
Would the public feel like that, if they only knew?... The Speaker's gavel had come down like a pistol shot. One "war-hoss" as my neighbour called them after another proceeded to crush the member from Elkington. It was, indeed, very skillfully done, and yet it was a process from which I did not derive, somehow, much pleasure.
"It depends upon what you mean by accomplishment," he answered, so mildly that I felt more rued than ever. "Well, from what you say, I suppose you're going in for reform, that these workmen up at Elkington are not satisfied with their conditions and imagine you can help to better them.
The Rossiter Banner, the Elkington Star, the Belfast Recorder, and I know not how many others simultaneously began to sing Mr. Watling's praises. "Not since the troublous times of the Civil War," declared the Morning Era, "had the demand for any man been so unanimous." As a proof of it, there were the country newspapers, "which reflected the sober opinion of the firesides of the common people."
Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. I considered Maude Hutchins, and found the consideration rather a delightful process.
They flew out of the room, and presently hurried back with their arms full of the usual parcels: parcels from Maude's family in Elkington, from my own relatives, from the Blackwoods and the Peterses, from Nancy. In the meantime I had had my own contributions brought up, the man of war, the locomotive, the big doll. Maude stood staring. "Hugh, they'll be utterly ruined!" she exclaimed.
You see, the hands in those big mills we have in Elkington sprang a surprise on the machine, and the first thing I knew I was nominated for the legislature. A committee came to my boarding-house and told me, and there was the deuce to pay, right off.
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