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His widow, instead of returning home and living on the little pension to which she was entitled at his death, remained in the service of the Sankeys, who soon came to regard her as invaluable. She was somewhat rough in her ways and sharp with her tongue; but even Mrs.
We need our Moodys and Sankeys as well as the Christians." "But, father, he seems to me so unfair." Raeburn looked grave. "My dear," he said, after a minute's thought, "you are not in the least bound to go to hear Mr. Masterman again unless you like.
Until two days before their return Abijah remained in the old house with the young Sankeys; then they moved into their new home, and she went off to her native village ten miles distant away on the moors. The next day there was a sale at the old house. A few, a very few, of the things had been moved.
The non-success which had attended their efforts, and the execution of all their leaders, thoroughly cowed the rioters, and their ranks were speedily thinned by the number of hands who found employment in the rapidly increasing mills in the district. Anyhow from that time the Luddite conspiracy ceased to be formidable. The Sankeys' mill at Marsden flourished greatly under Ned's management.
Still she never pressed the point, and Abijah appeared established as a permanent fixture in the Sankeys' household. She it was who, when, after leaving the service, Captain Sankey was looking round for a cheap and quiet residence, had recommended Marsden. "There is a grand air from the hills," she said, "which will be just the thing for the children.
His look of undisguised hostility was indeed noticed by all who were in church, and counted heavily against him in the days which were to come. It was not one of the least griefs of the young Sankeys connected with their mother's wedding that Abijah was to leave them. It was she herself who had given notice to Mrs. Sankey, saying that she would no longer be required.
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