[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER IV 9/14
Well, but perhaps he continues rebellious.
What follows? We can't lock up facts that affect the trade; we are bound to report the case at the next general meeting.
It excites comments, some of them perhaps a little intemperate; the lower kind of workmen get inflamed with passion, and often, I am sorry to say, write ruffianly letters, and now and then do ruffianly acts, which disgrace the town, and are strongly reprobated by us.
Why, Mr.Little, it has been my lot to send a civil remonstrance, written with my own hand, in pretty fair English--for a man who plied bellows and hammer twenty years of my life--and be treated with silent contempt; and two months after to be offering a reward of twenty or thirty pounds, for the discovery of some misguided man, that had taken on himself to right this very matter with a can of gunpowder, or some such coarse expedient." "Yes, but, sir, what hurts me is, you don't consider me to be worth a civil note.
You only remonstrated with Cheetham." "You can't wonder at that.
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