"Come, cheer up, and face the music.

They have all forgotten you by this time, and, when they do see you again, you shall be as good as the best of them.

I don't drink, and I've got a trade all to myself here, and I'd rather make my fortune in this town than any other; and, mother, you have been a good friend to me; I won't ever marry till I have done you justice, and made you the queen of this very town." And so he rattled on, in such high spirits, that the great soft thing began to smile with motherly love and pride through her tears, ere they found a lodging.
Next day to the works, and there the foreman showed him a small forge on the ground floor, and a vacant room above to make his handles in and put the tools together; the blades were to be ground, whetted, and finished by cheaper hands.
A quick-eared grinder soon came up to them, and said roughly, "Ain't we to wet new forge ?" "They want their drink out of you," said the foreman; and whispered, in great anxiety, "Don't say no, or you might as well work in a wasp's nest as here." "All right," said Henry, cheerfully.

"I'm no drinker myself, but I'll stand what is customary." "That is right," said Foreman Bayne.

"'Twill cost you fifteen shillings.
But Peace is cheap at as many guineas." The word was given, and every man who worked on the same floor with Henry turned out to drink at his expense, and left off work for a good hour.