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The Second Generation

CHAPTER XXV
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"He was just telling me," replied she.
"I understand why you yielded," continued Adelaide to Lorry.

"Arthur has been showing me the plans for the new factories.

Gardens all round, big windows, high ceilings, everything done by electricity, no smoke or soot, a big swimming pool for winter or summer, a big restaurant, dressing rooms--everything! Who'd have believed that work could be carried on in such surroundings ?" "It's about time, isn't it," said Lorry, in his slow, musical voice, "that idleness was deprived of its monopoly of comforts and luxuries ?" "How sensible that is!" said Del admiringly.

"Yet nobody thinks of it." "Why," Lorry went on, "the day'll come when they'll look back on the way we work nowadays, as we do on the time when a lot of men never went out to work except in chains and with keepers armed with lashes.

The fellows that call Dory and Arthur crazy dreamers don't realize what ignorant savages they themselves are." "They have no imagination," said Estelle.
"No imagination," echoed Lorry.


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