10/17 He's manager of the mill, and he loves the mill, and he knows every pound of warp or weft that comes in or goes out of the mill; and what his father would do without him, I'm sure I don't know. Won over Mostyn. That was a thing to do, wasn't it ?" "I suppose Mr.Mostyn was the Conservative candidate ?" "You may be sure of that. But my John Thomas doesn't blame him for it--the gentry have to be Conservatives. John Thomas said little against his politics; he just set the crowd laughing at his ways--his dandified ways. |