Some even said
warmly it was time slavery was put down, and that millions could not be
set free without somebody paying for it, and to be sure England's skirts
were not clean, and she would hev to pay her share, no doubt of it. Upon
the whole these poor, brave, blockaded men and women showed themselves
at this time to be the stoutest and most self-reliant population in the
world; and in their bare, denuded homes there were acted every day more
living, loving, heroic stories than fiction or poetry ever dreamed of.
So far the sufferers of Hatton had kept their troubles to themselves and
had borne all their privations with that nobility which belongs to human
beings in whom the elements are finely mixed.
John had suffered with them. His servants, men and women, had gradually
been dismissed, until only a man and woman remained. Jane had at first
demurred and reminded John that servants must live, as well as
spinners.
"True," answered John, "but servants can do many things beside the one
thing they are hired to do.
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