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"I am not against capital," replied Enoch. "What I am against is capitalists." "But if we get rid of capitalists we shall soon get rid of capital." "No, no," said Enoch, with his broad accent, shaking his head, and with a laughing eye. "Master Thornberry has been telling you that.
"And so," continued Thornberry, "she got it into her head she should like to live at Hurstley, and I took the place. I am afraid I have been foolish enough to lay out a great deal of money there for a place not my own. Your ladyship would not know the old hall.
She received him very graciously, and after dinner, inviting him to sit by her on the sofa, referred with delicacy to old times. "Your ladyship," said Thornberry, "would not know that I live myself now at Hurstley." "Indeed!" said Myra, unaffectedly surprised.
"They may call me what they like," said Job; "but it will not alter matters. However, I am going among the Radicals soon, and then I shall know what they are." "And can you leave your truly respectable parent?" said Mr. Ferrars rather solemnly, for he remembered his promise to Farmer Thornberry to speak seriously to his son. "Oh! my respectable parent will do very well without me, sir.
She may send us her bread-stuffs; but her laws will not admit our goods, except on the payment of enormous duties." "Pish!" said Thornberry; "I do not care this for their enormous duties. Let me have free imports, and I will soon settle their duties." "To fight hostile tariffs with free imports," said Endymion; "is not that fighting against odds?" "Not a bit.
The print-works were among the most considerable of their kind at Manchester, but they were working now with reduced numbers and at half-time. It was the energy and the taste and invention of Thornberry that had given them their reputation, and secured them extensive markets.
"What you should do," said Thornberry, one day, to Endymion, "is to go to Scotland; go to the Glasgow district; that city itself, and Paisley, and Kilmarnock keep your eye on Paisley. I am much mistaken if there will not soon be a state of things there which alone will break up the whole concern. It will burst it, sir; it will burst it."
Penruddock were full of intelligence and animation. Their welcome of Mr. Thornberry was exactly what it ought to have been; respectful, even somewhat differential, but cordial and unaffected. They conversed on all subjects, public and private, and on both seemed equally well informed, for they not only read more than one newspaper, but Mrs.
"Not exactly that, I hope," said Endymion; "but you cannot deny that the home market is a most important element in the consideration of our public wealth, and it mainly rests upon the agriculture of the country." "Then it rests upon a very poor foundation," said Thornberry.
Thornberry, who seemed pleased and agitated and a little blushing, and then their hostess addressed Job and said, "I was mentioning to your wife that the archbishop was here, and that I hope you would not dislike meeting him." And very shortly after this, the archbishop, who had been taking a village walk, entered the room. It was evident that he was intimate with the occupiers of Hurstley Hall.
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