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The audience enjoyed it, took the points, broke in now and then with comments as the speaker touched on such burning matters as the tyranny of overlookers, the temper of masters, the rubs between the different classes of 'hands, the behaviour of 'minders' to the 'piecers' employed by them, and so on. The sermon at one time was more like a dialogue between preacher and congregation.
'Yes, ma'am, he's a pretty boy, he's a dear darling boy, he's the child of my own last left daughter's daughter. But she's gone the way of all the rest. 'Those are not his brother and sister? said Mrs Boffin. 'Oh, dear no, ma'am. Those are Minders. 'Minders? the Secretary repeated. 'Left to be Minded, sir. I keep a Minding-School. I can take only three, on account of the Mangle.
He would have made a wonderful cabinet-maker, said Mrs Higden, 'if there had been the money to put him to it. She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily.
'I hope so, answered Sloppy. 'It all depends on their striking in'ards. He then went on to say that whether Johnny had 'took 'em' from the Minders, or whether the Minders had 'took em from Johnny, the Minders had been sent home and had 'got em.
And now in a roomful of machine minders he was to learn a wider lesson, to make the acquaintance of another factor in life, a factor as elemental as the loss of things dear to us, more elemental even than toil. His quiet discouragement of conversation was an immediate cause of offence was interpreted, rightly enough I fear, as disdain.
Moreover, there has been a colossal buying of horses for the British army, a tremendous organisation for the purchase and supply of fodder, then employment of tens of thousands of men as grooms, minders and the like, who would otherwise have been in the munition factories or the trenches. To what possible use can cavalry be put? Can it be used in attack?
It's not so much what Raymond doesn't do as what he does do. He's foolish with the spinners and minders at the Mill." "He might be," said Jenny Ironsyde, "but he's a gentleman." "He's an idiot. I believe he'd wreck the whole business if he had the power. Best tells me he talks to the girls about what he's going to do presently, and tells them he will raise all their wages.
She went through with whatever duty she had to do. She went through with me, she went through with the Minders, she went through with herself, she went through with everythink. O Mrs Higden, Mrs Higden, you was a woman and a mother and a mangler in a million million!
It was as though its soul had passed and left a dead mill behind it. Raymond, released for a moment from the attentions of the foreman, strolled among the machines of the minders and spinners. Then his eyes were held by an intimate and personal circumstance that linked these women to this place.
This sound being taken up by the Minders, swelled into a rapturous trio which gave general satisfaction. So, the interview was considered very successful, and Mrs Boffin was pleased, and all were satisfied. Not least of all, Sloppy, who undertook to conduct the visitors back by the best way to the Three Magpies, and whom the hammer-headed young man much despised.
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