Harold Bindloss

“ It's been all work and going without, so far—smoky mill and shabby streets, with a week, perhaps, at Blackpool and a Bank Holiday. No time for clean, restful pleasure—hardly time to think. There's a different world we've never seen, and, if the trial run leads to nothing, never may see. But I've pinched and puzzled, and know the mill will go."
"Then why are you boddering?"
"I'm afraid of accidents—of something I can't control spoiling the trial," Creighton replied. "If Savile gets an excuse, he'll stop the run. ”

“ The company don't take over my patent until we finish the run."
"They canna tak' it from you, aw t' same."
"That's true; but a patent's no use to a poor man unless he can get somebody to use it and pay him a royalty. All I saved from my pay has gone in experiments, and the directors have spent a thousand pounds on the mill; but they've touched their limit, and if she won't do good work, they'll scrap the plant and stop. A little improvement I added cost me sixty pounds I dursen't charge for. Savile was dead against me from the start."
Rawnsley nodded. "He's not fond of you. ”

“ Sam was rather stupid now and then; he talked about jobbery, sycophants, and female influence. A man, he declared, ought to be judged on his merits.
Mrs. Hilliard was young, romantic, and sympathetic. She had not been married long, and liked to feel she had some power she could use for good. She thought Jenny's story moving, and Creighton something of a hero, and talked to her husband after the girl had gone.
A few days afterwards Creighton was called to the secretary's office, and found Hilliard and two or three others sitting round a table, while Savile stood at the bottom. ”

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