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McGrath brutally handsome in those days, idle, insolent, and independent later had developed qualities of which at the time there was little evidence. He had smiled and shrugged his shoulders a habit which had grown upon him as Rathbawne gave his verdict, and had instinctively resisted the temptation to threaten revenge. For that inspiration he had been devoutly grateful ever since.
A wedding certainly is an undertaking, Mr. Nisbet." "Is it?" answered young Nisbet, perceptibly startled at being thus abruptly included in the conversation. "Decidedly!" asseverated Mrs. Rathbawne. "Of course, in the case of an ordinary man" "Two lumps, mother?" "Always two lumps, Dorothy, my dear. Surely you must know that, by this time! As I was saying, Mr.
Well, gentlemen, I've got that Union about my ears like a nest of hornets, with McGrath at the head, and unless those fifteen men are reinstated by noon to-morrow, my four thousand hands will be out on strike, and the Rathbawne Mills will be tied up as tight as a drum!" "Fight 'em!" said Colonel Broadcastle curtly, as the other paused. "That's what I meant to do but where am I going to come out?
"Whatever lawlessness exists and I think you have grossly exaggerated its extent, Colonel Broadcastle is due to the selfish obstinacy of one man. In my opinion, Mr. Rathbawne is entirely in the wrong. He had fair warning, which he did not choose to heed. If his property suffers at the hands of the strikers, he has only himself to blame." "It is not a question of Mr.
The Lieutenant-Governor raised his eyes from the finger-tips with which, as the other was speaking, he had been plucking at the cloth. "Fight them, Mr. Rathbawne," he said, "and may God help you because I can't!"
Peter Rathbawne, with what had been natural shrewdness at the outset now sharpened almost to clairvoyance by his years of dealing with a multiplicity of men and things, understood the Lieutenant-Governor absolutely, and admired him with all the force of his rugged nature. And Rathbawne was not given to admiring people. His business experience had not fostered the spirit of hero-worship.
Their conversation, on the afternoon when he had first spoken to Barclay of the impending strike, was reproduced almost word for word, as well as that on the occasion when McGrath had been present, and therefrom the "Record" went on to deduce that not even Peter Rathbawne, with all his obstinacy, all his blindness to the welfare of his employees, was responsible for their present destitution in the same sense as was the Lieutenant-Governor, who might have avoided the strike by a conciliatory word, and who, instead, had advised Mr.
He had been able to laugh within a half-minute after the words "unmitigated blackguard" had smitten his ears; but they had rankled for all that. It was not so much the insult, as the knowledge that it was justified. He was remarkably candid with himself, was Michael McGrath. Hence the unparalleled venom of the strike at the Rathbawne Mills.
The silence which followed her words was broken by a hoarse sob from Mr. Rathbawne, and, turning, they saw that his head had fallen back against the chair, with his eyes, wide and staring, fixed upon the glass roof, and his breath coming in short, thick gasps from between his parted lips. In an instant Natalie was on her knees by his side, with her arms about him.
I don't care how it's done, but done it must be, for the sake of example. It's easy enough to manage it, as things are. There'll be a howl, but we have the authorities fixed. And those two men must go!" In the tense silence which followed, a man's voice whispered two words hoarsely: "Mr. Rathbawne!" "Ay, Mr.
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