The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition). Elizabeth Gaskell

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and the other, into whose still longer ears it may be the means, under Providence, of instilling somewhat?' We answer, 'None knows, none can certainly know: therefore, write on, worthy Brother, even as thou canst, even as it is given thee.'"

      CARLYLE.

       Preface

       I. A Mysterious Disappearance

       II. A Manchester Tea-party

       III. John Barton's Great Trouble

       IV. Old Alice's History

       V. The Mill on Fire—Jem Wilson to the Rescue

       VI. Poverty and Death

       VII. Jem Wilson's Repulse

       VIII. Margaret's Debut as a Public Singer

       IX. Barton's London Experiences

       X. Return of the Prodigal

       XI. Mr. Carson's Intentions Revealed

       XII. Old Alice's Bairn

       XIII. A Traveller's Tales

       XIV. Jem's Interview with Poor Esther

       XV. A Violent Meeting Between the Rivals

       XVI. Meeting Between Masters and Workmen

       XVII. Barton's Night-errand

       XVIII. Murder

       XIX. Jem Wilson Arrested on Suspicion

       XX. Mary's Dream—And the Awakening

       XXI. Esther's Motive in Seeking Mary

       XXII. Mary's Efforts to Prove an Alibi

       XXIII. The Sub-pœna

       XXIV. With the Dying

       XXV. Mrs. Wilson's Determination

       XXVI. The Journey to Liverpool

       XXVII. In the Liverpool Docks

       XXVIII. "John Cropper, Ahoy!"

       XXIX. A True Bill Against Jem

       XXX. Job Legh's Deception

       XXXI. How Mary Passed the Night

       XXXII. The Trial and Verdict—"Not Guilty"

       XXXIII. Requiescat in Pace

       XXXIV. The Return Home

       XXXV. "Forgive Us Our Trespasses"

       XXXVI. Jem's Interview with Mr. Duncombe

       XXXVII. Details Connected with the Murder

       XXXVIII. Conclusion

      Preface

       Table of Contents

      Three years ago I became anxious (from circumstances that need not be more fully alluded to) to employ myself in writing a work of fiction. Living in Manchester, but with a deep relish and fond admiration for the country, my first thought was to find a frame-work for my story in some rural scene; and I had already made a little progress in a tale, the period of which was more than a century ago, and the place on the borders of Yorkshire, when I bethought me how deep might be the romance in the lives of some of those who elbowed me daily in the busy streets of the town in which I resided. I had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want; tossed to and fro by circumstances, apparently in even a greater degree than other men. A little manifestation of this sympathy, and a little attention to the expression of feelings on the part of some of the work-people with whom I was acquainted, had laid open to me the hearts of one or two of the more thoughtful among them; I saw that they were sore and irritable against the rich, the even tenor of whose seemingly happy lives appeared to increase the anguish caused by the lottery-like nature of their own. Whether the bitter complaints

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