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Updated: May 13, 2025
My interest in piece-sorting an occupation I had never even heard of before had grown abnormally, and I had gone into the figures and quantities so many hundredweights, purchased at fifteen shillings, sorted into lots, and sold at various prices with as thorough-going an eagerness as if my own livelihood were to depend upon it.
I wrote to Quarriar to call on me without delay. He came immediately, his head bowed, his features care-worn and full of infinite suffering. Yes, it was true; the piece-sorting had failed. For a few weeks all had gone well. He had bought cuttings himself, had given the partner thrust upon him by Conn various sums for the same purpose.
The landlord produced a goblet of rum and shrub for the benefit of the high-born visitor, and we all clinked glasses, the young master-tailor beaming at me unctuously as he set down his glass. 'I love company, he cried, with no apparent consciousness of impudent familiarity. I returned, however, to my central interest in life the piece-sorting.
Ere I left I suddenly remembered to ask after the three younger children. They were still with their kind benefactor, the father told me. 'I suppose you will resume possession of them when you make your fortune by the piece-sorting? I said. 'God grant it, he replied. 'My bowels yearn for that day. Against my intention I slipped into his hand the final seven pounds I was prepared to pay.
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