Still, he manages to hold on.

The Lancashire people, though they have invented flannelette, cannot as yet make a passable imitation of frieze, and there is a Dublin house which buys annually all the blankets he can turn out.

It is true that even there, and for the best class of customers, prices have to be cut so as to leave a bare margin of profit.

Yet since there is a margin, Mr.Quinn holds on, though not very hopefully.
Hyacinth left the bulk of his luggage--a packing-case containing the books which the auctioneer had failed to dispose of in Carrowkeel--at the station, and walked into Ballymoy carrying his bag.

He had little difficulty in making his way to the mill, and found the owner of it in his office.