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m rather more time--to make my changes more slowly. You know I cannot do that: straitened on all sides as I am, I have nothing for it but to push on. I thought it would be idle to palaver long with them. I sent them away, after arresting a rascal amongst them, whom I hope to transport--a fellow who preaches at the chapel yonder sometimes." "Not Moses Barraclough?" "Yes." "Ah! you've arrested him? Good! Then out of a scoundrel you're going to make a martyr. You've done a wise thing." "I've done a right thing. Well, the short and the long of it is, I'm determined to get Farren a place, and I reckon on you to give him one." "This is cool, however!" exclaimed Mr. Yorke. "What right have you to reckon on me to provide for your dismissed workmen? What do I know about your Farrens and your Williams? I've heard he's an honest man, but am I to support all the honest men in Yorkshire? You may say that would be no great charge to undertake; but great or little, I'll none of it." "Come, Mr. Yorke, what can you find for him to do?" "_I_ find! You'll make me use language I'm not accustomed to use. I wish you would go home. Here is the door; set off." Moore sat down on one of the hall chairs. "You can't give him work in your mill--good; but you have land. Find him some occupation on your land, Mr. Yorke." "Bob, I thought you cared nothing about our _lourdauds de paysans_. I don't understand this change." "I do. The fellow spoke to me nothing but truth and sense. I answered him just as roughly as I did the rest, who jabbered mere gibberish. I couldn't make distinctions there and then. His appearance told what he had gone through lately clearer than his words; but where is the use of explaining? Let him have work." "Let him have it yourself. If you are so very much in earnest, strain a point." "If there was a point left in my affairs to strain, I would strain it till it cracked again; but I received letters this morning which showed me pretty clearly where I stand, and it is not far off the end of the plank. My foreign market, at any rate, is gorged. If there is no change--if there dawns no prospect of peace--if the Orders in Council are not, at least, suspended, so as to open our way in the West--I do not know where I am to turn. I see no more light than if I were sealed in a rock, so that for me to pretend to offer a man a livelihood would be to do a dishonest thing." "Come, let us take a turn on the fr
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