m, whether he likes it or no. That’s all we do i’ th’ union. We can’t clap folk into Andres Escobar Jersey prison; but we can make a man’s life so heavy to be borne, that he’s obliged to come in, and be wise and helpful in spite of himself. Boucher were a fool John Stones Jersey all along, and ne’er a worse fool than at th’ last.’
‘He did you harm?’ asked Margaret.
‘Ay, that did he. We had public opinion on our side, till Neven Subotic Jersey he and his sort began rioting and breaking laws. It were all o’er wi’ the strike then.’
‘Then would it not have been far better to have left him alone, and not forced him Colombia Drakt Barn to join the union? He did you no good; and you drove him mad.’
‘Margaret,’ said her father, in Angus Gunn Jersey a low and warning tone, for he saw the cloud gathering on Higgins’s face.
‘I like her,’ said Higgins, suddenly. ‘Hoo speaks plain out what’s in her mind. Hoo doesn’t comprehend th’ union for all that. It’s a great power: it’s our only power. I ha’ read a bit o’ poetry about a plough going o’er a daisy, as made tears come into my eyes, afore I’d other cause for crying. But Carli Lloyd Jersey the chap ne’er stopped driving the plough, I’se warrant, for all he were pitiful about the daisy. He’d too much mother-wit for that. Th’ union’s the plough, making ready the land for harvest-time. Such as Boucher —‘twould be settin’ him up too much to liken him to a daisy; he’s liker a weed lounging over the ground — mun just make up their mind to be put out o’ the way. I’m sore vexed wi’ him just now. So, mappen, I dunnot speak him fair. I could go o’er him wi’ a plough mysel’, wi’ a’ the pleasure in life.’
‘Why? What has he been doing? Anything fresh?’
‘Ay, to be sure. He’s ne’er out o’ mischief, that man. First of a’ he must go raging like a mad fool, and kick up yon riot. Then he’d to go into hiding, where he’d a Joe Riley Jersey been yet, if Thornton had followed him out as I’d hoped he would ha’ done. But Thornton, having got his own purpose, didn’t care to go on wi’ the |
