ABSTRACT

No sooner did Miss Brotherton enter the room where she had left her old friend, who was still tranquilly enjoying the perfumed air which visited her through the open window as she sat knitting before it, than throwing her bonnet on one side, she began to examine, and cross-examine her as follows:

“P ray , Mrs. Tremlett, do you know any thing about the factory people that work in all these great ugly buildings round about Ash¬ leigh?”