Such is the bargain I propose.

It is, in my opinion, fair and calculated to encourage thrifty habits.

If it does not strike you in that light, you can get a factory and raw cotton for yourselves; you shall not use mine.' In other words, they might go to the devil and starve--Hobson's choice!--for all the other factories were owned by men who offered no better terms.

The Manchesterians could not bear to starve or to see their children starve, and so they accepted his terms and went into the factory.

The terms, you see, did not admit of their beginning to save for themselves as he had done.