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‘Contempt, indeed!’—(One of Mrs. Thornton’s expressive snorts.)—‘Don’t go on speaking of Miss Hale, John, if I’ve to be kind to her. When I’m with her, I don’t know if I like or dislike her most; but when I think of her, and hear you talk of her, I hate her. I can see she’s given herself airs to you as well as if you’d told me out.’
‘And if she has,’ said he — and then he paused for a moment — then went on: ‘I’m not a lad, to be cowed by a proud look from a woman, or to care for her misunderstanding me and my position. I can laugh at it!’
‘To be sure! and at her too, with her fine notions and haughty tosses!’
‘I only wonder why you talk so much about her, then,’ said Fanny. ‘I’m sure, I’m tired enough of the subject.’
‘Well!’ said her brother, with a shade of bitterness. ‘Suppose we find some more agreeable subject. What do you say to a strike, by way of something pleasant to talk about?’
‘Have the hands actually turned out?’ asked Mrs. Thornton, with vivid interest.
‘Hamper’s men are actually out. Mine are working out their week, through fear of being prosecuted for breach of contract I’d have had every one of them up and punished for it, that left his work before his time was out.’
‘The law expenses would have been more than the hands them selves were worth — a set of ungrateful naughts!’ said his mother.
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