[The Squire of Sandal-Side by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Squire of Sandal-Side CHAPTER VIII 13/59
And then to see them turned into cloth as fast as steam can do it! My word, squire, there never was magic or witchcraft like the steam and metal witchcraft of a Yorkshire mill." "Well, well, Steve.
I don't fret myself because I am set in stiller ways, and I don't blame those who like the hurryment of steam and metal. Each of us has God's will to do, and our own race to run; and may we prosper." After this, Steve, sometimes gaining and sometimes losing, gradually won his way back to the squire's liking.
September proved to be an unusually fair month; and to the lovers it was full of happiness, for early in it their relation to each other was fully recognized; and Stephen had gone in and out of the pleasant "Seat," dayshine and dark, as the acknowledged lover of Charlotte Sandal.
The squire, upon the whole, submitted gracefully: he only stipulated that for some time, indefinitely postponed, the subject of marriage was not to be taken into consideration.
"I could not bear it any road.
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