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'I only wonder why you talk so much about her, then, said Fanny. 'I'm sure, I'm tired enough of the subject. 'Well! said her brother, with a shade of bitterness. 'Suppose we find some more agreeable subject. What do you say to a strike, by way of something pleasant to talk about? 'Have the hands actually turned out? asked Mrs. Thornton, with vivid interest. 'Hamper's men are actually out.
'He and many another, all Hamper's men, and many a one besides. Th' women are as bad as th' men, in their savageness, this time. Food is high, and they mun have food for their childer, I reckon. Suppose Thorntons sent 'em their dinner out, th' same money, spent on potatoes and meal, would keep many a crying babby quiet, and hush up its mother's heart for a bit! 'Don't speak so! said Margaret.
Accordingly, he stopped on board the steamer till Hellyer, the hamper's custodian, left her; when after seeing him and Dick embarked along with the hamper, the retriever jumped over the side of the stranded vessel and swam ashore in company with the boat containing his friends, apparently mistrusting the frail craft, and preferring to rely upon his own powers in the water.
'There's not the pressure on all the broad earth that would make me, said Nicholas Higgins. 'Now yo've got it. Yo've hit the bull's eye. Hamper's that's where I worked makes their men pledge 'emselves they'll not give a penny to help th' Union or keep turnouts fro' clemming. They may pledge and make pledge, continued he, scornfully; 'they nobbut make liars and hypocrites.
"This is not a matter of a loss of license; it's a life job!" "Life job!" whispered the man, and his weak face suddenly relaxed, so that, oddly, the old refinement shone out through the new, vulgar veneer. "Answer my questions straight and square and I'll take your word that you have not seen the inquiry!" said Dunbar. "Dick Hamper's done this for me!" muttered Brian. "He's a dirty, low swine!
Well, now, sir, I put it to yo', being a parson, and having been in th' preaching line, and having had to try and bring folk o'er to what yo' thought was a right way o' thinking did yo' begin by calling 'em fools and such like, or didn't yo' rayther give 'em some kind words at first, to make 'em ready for to listen and be convinced, if they could; and in yo'r preaching, did yo' stop every now and then, and say, half to them and half to yo'rsel', "But yo're such a pack o' fools, that I've a strong notion it's no use my trying to put sense into yo'?" I were not i' th' best state, I'll own, for taking in what Hamper's friend had to say I were so vexed at the way it were put to me; but I thought, "Come, I'll see what these chaps has got to say, and try if it's them or me as is th' noodle."
He ne'er showed himsel' abroad for a day or two. He had that grace. And then, where think ye that he went? Why, to Hamper's. Damn him! He went wi' his mealy-mouthed face, that turns me sick to look at, a-asking for work, though he knowed well enough the new rule, o' pledging themselves to give nought to th' Unions; nought to help the starving turn-out!
Hamper's way of speaking to you in recommending his friend's book, yet if it told you what he said it did, that wages find their own level, and that the most successful strike can only force them up for a moment, to sink in far greater proportion afterwards, in consequence of that very strike, the book would have told you the truth.
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