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"As a friend, of course," he echoed vaguely, still with the meaningless smile on his face. "I b'lieve she means to be a good 'ooman; but she's listenin' to 'en. Now, I've got 'en a ship up to Runcorn. He shan't sail the Touch-me-not no more. 'Tis a catch for 'en a nice barquentine, five hundred tons. Between this an' then there's danger, and 'tis for you to settle how to act."
Restored to generous calm, he could admit that such men as Runcorn and Kenyon the one with his polyarchic commercialism, the other with his demagogic violence had possibly a useful part to play at the present stage of things. He, however, could have no place in that camp.
The latest recorded occasion of its use was at Congleton in 1824, when a woman named Ann Runcorn was condemned to endure the bridle for abusing and slandering the churchwardens when they made their tour of inspection of the alehouses during the Sunday-morning service. There are some excellent drawings of branks, and full descriptions of their use, in Mr. Andrews's Bygone Punishments.
But Liverpool, situated on the banks of a river which, until buoyed and improved at a vast expense, was a very inferior port for safety and convenience, has profited by the changes which have rendered the American the most important of our foreign customers, and Ireland as easily reached as Runcorn in a sailing flat.
He married a third daughter of the Duke of Runcorn Lady Lucy Briddwater." She said without the betraying flicker of an eyelash: "I have seen the lady named...." He said, with a prick of self-reproach for having again turned the barb that festered in her bosom: "Lady Lucy was a very lovely creature, and a very impulsive one. She lived not happily, and she died tragically."
About ten minutes' further steaming brought us to Runcorn, where were two or three tall manufacturing chimneys, with a pennant of black smoke from each; two vessels of considerable size on the stocks; a church or two; and a meagre, uninteresting, shabby, brick-built town, rising from the edge of the river, with irregular streets, not village-like, but paved, and looking like a dwarfed, stunted city.
Runcorn is fourteen miles from Liverpool, and is the farthest point to which a steamer runs. I had intended to come home by rail, a circuitous route, but the advice of the landlady of the hotel, and the aspect of the weather, and a feeling of general discouragement prevented me.
Before reaching Runcorn, we stopped to land some passengers at another little port, where there was a pier and a lighthouse, and a church within a few yards of the river-side, a good many of the river-craft, too, in dock, forming quite a crowd of masts.
Jarvis Runcorn, editor and co-proprietor of the London Weekly Post, was looking about for a young man of journalistic promise whom he might associate with himself in the conduct of that long established Radical paper. The tale of his years warned him that he could not hope to support much longer a burden which necessarily increased with the growing range and complexity of public affairs.
But my owner could not pay the salvage; so the parties who owned the steamer a Runcorn firm paid him fifty pounds and kept me for their services. A surveyor examined me, and reported that I should never be fit for much: the explosion had shaken me to pieces. I might do for the coasting trade that was all; and in that I've remained."
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