Oh, blasting thought! Oh, miserable remembrance! He had forfeited all right to bind up his brother's wounds.-Ch. The sympathy for suffering, formerly so prevalent a feeling with him, again filled John Barton's heart, and almost impelled him to speak (as best he could) some earnest, tender words to the stern man, shaking in his agony.īut who was he, that he should utter sympathy or consolation? The cause of all this woe. The mourner before him was no longer the employer a being of another race, eternally placed in antagonistic attitude going through the world glittering like gold, with a stony heart within, which knew no sorrow but through the accidents of Trade no longer the enemy, the oppressor, but a very poor and desolate old man. Rich and poor, masters and men, were then brothers in the deep suffering of the heart for was not this the very anguish he had felt for little Tom, in years so long gone by, that they seemed like another life! The eyes of John Barton grew dim with tears. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English author, wrote Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
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