A Struggle for a Ring — page 69: what you’re looking at

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WELCOMING A SON-IN-LAW. 65 white cliffs of Dover had disappeared from her sight. She was but little changed; she was more beautifully dressed, more quiet, refined, and graceful in manner; yet it seemed to her that her whole being had changed. ‘* Vivian,” she said, making a last appeal to him, ‘‘I | _ wish you would not go to Rudeswell.” He laughed at her fears, though afterward he knew they had been just. CHAPTER IX. WELCOMING A SON-IN-LAW. Rudeswell is one of the largest manufacturing towns in the middle of England; the population is by no means a distinguished one—a few of what are called gentry, who consist principally of people who have made their fortune in the town and wish to enjoy it there; the remaining part of the population is made up of the people who work in the factories, and the tradespeople who supply them with the necessaries of life. » Then these factory people are ambitious; among them are many most intelligent men—men who read and think, who understand politics, who have a good idea of history ; men who can hold their own in argument with those who are supposed to be much superior; in fact, the British workman shone in Rudeswell. The girls in the factory were a class quite apart; to begin with, they were healthy, hearty, generous girls, full of life and laughter, always ready to help each other with money and kind words, Eomichboo