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Not for a moment take the scorner's chair;
While seated there, thou know'st not how a word,
A tone, a look, may gall1 thy brother's heart,
And make him turn in bitterness against thee. Love-Truths.
The day arrived on which the masters were to have an interview with a deputation of the workpeople. The meeting was to take place in a public room, at an hotel; and there, about eleven o'clock, the mill-owners, who had received the foreign orders, began to collect.
Of course, the first subject, however full their minds might be of another, was the weather. Having done their duty by all the showers and sunshine which had occurred during the past week, they fell to talking about the business which brought them together. There might be about twenty gentlemen in the room, including some by courtesy, who were not immediately concerned in the settlement of the present questionbut who, nevertheless, were sufficiently2 interested to attend. These were divided into little groups, who did not seem unanimous by any means. Some were for a slight concession3, just a sugar-plum to quieten the naughty child, a sacrifice to peace and quietness. Some were steadily4 and vehemently5 opposed to the dangerous precedent6 of yielding one jot7 or one tittle to the outward force of a turn-out It was teaching the workpeople how to become masters, said they. Did they want the wildest thing hereafter, they would know that the way to obtain their wishes would be to strike work. Besides, one or two of those present had only just returned from the New Bailey, where one of the turn-outs had been tried for a cruel assault on a poor north-country weaver8, who had attempted to work at the low price. They were indignant, and justly so, at the merciless manner in which the poor fellow had been treated; and their indignation at wrong, took (as it often does) the extreme form of revenge. They felt as if; rather than yield to the body of men who were resorting to such cruel measures towards their fellow-workmen, they, the masters, would sooner

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v.使烦恼,使焦躁,难堪;n.磨难 | |
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brutes
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assented
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stature
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fustian
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worthy
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consultation
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defiance
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harry
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obedience
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industrious
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uncouth
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liking
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pangs
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miserable
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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desolate
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approbation
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orator
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