'Warrants are out against three men for conspiracy, mother. The

riot yesterday helped to knock up the strike.' And Margaret's name was no more mentioned between Mrs. Thornton

and her son. They fell back into their usual mode of talk,--about

facts, not opinions, far less feelings. Their voices and tones

were calm and cold a stranger might have gone away and thought

that he had never seen such frigid indifference of demeanour

between such near relations.




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