He says that his life was saved by his fellow-workmen, and that as he lay scorched--'(Oh, dear!') "Well, go on, Grace." "It is all very well to say go on, papa--'scorched and bleeding on the ground and unable to distinguish faces' (poor, poor Mr.Little!) 'he heard, on all sides of him, expressions of rugged sympathy and sobs, and tears, from rough, but--manly fellows, who--'(oh! oh! oh!") Grace could not go on for whimpering, and Jael cried, for company.

Henry left off carving, and turned away his head, touched to the heart by this sweet and sudden sympathy.
"How badly you read," said Mr.Carden, and took the journal from her.
He read in a loud business-like monotone, that, like some blessed balm, dried every tear.

"'Manly fellows who never shed a tear before: this disposed of one alternative, and narrowed the inquiry.

It was not a personal feud; therefore it was a Trade outrage, or it was nothing.

We now took evidence bearing on the inquiry thus narrowed; and we found the assault had been preceded by a great many letters, all of them breathing the spirit of Unionism, and none of them intimating a private wrong.
These letters, taken in connection, are a literary curiosity; and we find there is scarcely a manufacturer in the place who has not endured a similar correspondence, and violence at the end of it.