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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER III
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Yarns are yarns, and yarns are up in the market; we can use all we hev ourselves.

Clough hes opinions not worth a shilling's credit.
They are all wrong, sir." "His opinions may be wrong, his life is right." "Why, sir, he's nothing but a Radical or a Socialist." "Jonathan, I don't bring politics into business." "You're right, sir.

When I see any of our customers bothering with politics, I begin to watch for their names in t' bankruptcy list.

Your honorable father, sir, could talk with both Tories and Radicals and fall out with neither.

Then he would pick up his order-book, and forget what side he'd taken or whether he hed been on any side or not." "Write to Clough and tell him you were sorry not to fill his last order.
Say that we have now plenty of yarns and will be glad to let him have whatever he wants." "Very well, sir.


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