Fortunes made in business, a series of original sketches, by various writers [ed. by J. Hogg].1884 |
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Página 429 - are every morning wet by the tears of innocent victims at the accursed shrine of avarice, who are compelled, not by the cart-whip of the negro slave-driver, but by the dread of the equally appalling thong or strap of the overlooker, to hasten, half-dressed, but not half-fed, to those magazines of British infantile slavery — the worsted-mills in the town and neighbourhood of Bradford!
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