This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. 2) The Oath. "Persuasion hung npon thy lip: And sly insinuation's softer arts In ambush lay about thy flowing tongue.' Blair. "Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear; Oaths are of dreadful weight! and If they are false, Draw down damnation."-- Savage. Mellor is the speaker, and, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. 2) The Oath. "Persuasion hung npon thy lip: And sly insinuation's softer arts In ambush lay about thy flowing tongue.' Blair. "Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear; Oaths are of dreadful weight! and If they are false, Draw down damnation."-- Savage. Mellor is the speaker, and, like the rest, uses the broad Yorkshire dialect, which, however, we shall take the liberty of refining a little, in order that it may be read with more ease. During; the reading of the exciting narrative just brought to a conclusion, he has been interjecting fierce comments, and now the account is ended, he gives vent to his pent-up feelings. "Hurrah! that's right," he cried in a horse voice, "the Nottingham lambs are shewing them specials and clodhopping soldiers a bit of real good sport. O, but I wish I was there," he added with a sudden accession of energy, "I wish 1 was there. It would be glorious to dash them cursed frames into a thousand pieces!" "Aye," growled Thorpe, surlily, "but wishing's all nowt. It strikes me we've had rather too much of that." "Thou'rt right, Will," answered Mellor, savagely, "but what can two or three do? What are we doing here? Look at Booth, for instance--he'll come here and talk about the evils under which we working men groan, by the hour together, and air all his new fangled notions that he's picked up through Socialists; he knows very well that machinery is destroying us and nowt but the workhouse will be left for us soon, and yet he's never got farther than talk. Join us, lad, join us, thou'st talked long enough, its time for action now. Isn't machinery increasing on all hands, and aren't working men half starving and seeking in vain for work? Its true these machines aren't taking Booth's trade out of his...
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