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    THE LANCASHIRE MILL. 385

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    of feminine loveliness than we had seen during the whole of joined our stay in in some Manchester instances — with well- countenances shaped forms whose abounding portraiture , coneffect would certainl

    have mi charm ght been s have alone still graced ; more but a Book thoug pleasing of h Beaut necklaces t y t . los The and t trus much e t arrings ed t o their the were na t here tural y ,

    tooalmost universaleven hese awdry no t aspec orn t , sla t th t tt ernl soiled had y a j tt acke ire presen of t , t ted and he t when own ragged workers seen skirt g , li b , tt y bu ering being t with among con a trasted kind the of , alland which

    nea covering large tness pinafore t as o the it of did busy clean the nymp entire calico hs , who worn dress thronged , gave y nearl an e ach air room , of uni : whil form e ,

    there was scarcely a head among whose mass of well-smoothed < hair 3 omb did to no be t used peep occasionall out the toilette y in - freeing adjunct it of , from a small time dressing to time - ,

    from this fac , the tory accumulation wore , as compared of floating due wit to h fibre t the ha . t presen The fact d t ifferent ed of by its the aspect being city

    suburban one , could for hardl the y have town been in which it stood mere by no means a small one , and it is in a coal district toowhich makes it less

    rural duein than all , pro it mi bability ght otherwis to the e heads be . of The the difference , respective was establish chiefly

    ments , whose characters , and the amount of interest they take influence in the , masses for good of or peop ill , In in the their former employ case , mus these t have had perhaps a vast

    been merely reckoned as . cs hands ; " here it , was evidently kept in mind that they were " souls . Strange tha t t this should tion ever of

    ho be w forgo the tt t hings , when tha all t are around visible seems are one influenced vassymboliz by the things that invisible—one vast illustration of the dominion of

    revolvin spirit are over more matter . idl We t have han seen fifty coul - seven follow thousand as they sp t indles urned

    mounds g of fibre into miles y of yarn ; we have tand seen , f the t shuttles h

    of nearl f y t ile hirt webs een hundred of weft l addin ooms fly ing t a t hread a ro t a hroug timeye t many so swift lthat thw before , us g into substantial cloth ; , and

    y ey gro all whose these subt motions le influence have ex been tending impel from led b a y r emo u te nseen part p ow th er e ,

    building sot to wh , keep ich s we every are condu p , in and cted wheel we are at introduced work ; for in to the the soul last

    f of p all this f five mi g t hty eam frame engin , es the ( amounting source , of all to its two pulses hundred , in the here of

    thing fifty linder horse that _below power requires ) or ? which wheel moving are and . the Yet racket prime all in above movers vain were were p there iston every and not

    _cy human intelligences , at work also to watch over , them all . A

    The Lancashire Mill. 385

    THE LANCASHIRE MILL . 385

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/25/