I know better than to fratch with anyone--at least I think I do." "Just before I went away, mother, Jonathan came to me and said, 'Sir, I hev confidence in human nature, generally speaking, but there's tricks and there's turns, and if I was you I would run no risks with them Manchester Sulbys'.

Then he put the Sulby case before me, and if I had not taken his advice, I would have lost three hundred pounds.

It is Jonathan's way to love God and suspect his neighbor." "He will find it hard to do the two things at the same time, John." "I do not understand how John works the problem, mother, but he does it at least to his own satisfaction.

He has told us often in the men's weekly meeting that he is 'safe religiously, and that all his eternal interests are settled,' but I notice that he trusts no man until he has proved him honest." "I don't believe in such Christians, John, and I hope there are not very many of the same make." "Indeed, mother, this union of a religious profession with a sharp worldly spirit is the common character among our spinners.

Jonathan has four sons, and he has brought every one of them up in the same way." "One of the four got married last week--married a girl who will have a factory and four hundred looms for her fortune--old Aker's granddaughter, you know." "Yes, I know.