[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER V 33/38
The dam was larger than most, and sloping grass on one side, cropped short by the grinder's sheep: on the other his strip of garden: and bushes and flowers hung over the edge and glassed themselves in the clear water.
Below the wheel, and at one side, was the master-grinder's cottage, covered with creepers. But Henry's mind was in no state to enjoy these beauties.
He envied them; and, at last, they oppressed him, and he turned his back on them, and wandered, disconsolate, home. He sat down on a stool by his mother, and laid his beating temples on her knees. "What is it, my darling ?" said she softly. "Well, mother, for one thing, the Unions are against me, and I see I shall have to leave Hillsborough, soon or late." "Never mind, dear; happiness does not depend upon the place we live in; and oh, Henry, whatever you do, never quarrel with those terrible grinders and people.
The world is wide.
Let us go back to London; the sooner the better.
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