[Springhaven by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookSpringhaven CHAPTER XXVII 10/17
If they are happy, submissive, contented, delighted to lick the boots of their betters, my conscience will be clear to accept their homage, and their money for any stick of mine they look at.
But you have amazed me by a most outrageous act. Because the lower orders have owned a path here for some centuries, you think it wrong that they should lose their right.
Explain to me, Daniel, these extraordinary sentiments." "If you please, sir," said Dan, who was following in the track, though invited to walk by the side, of Caryl Carne, "I can hardly tell you how the lower orders feel, because father and me don't belong to them.
Our family have always owned their own boat, and worked for their own hand, this two hundred years, and, for all we know, ever since the Romans was here.
We call them the lower orders, as come round to pick up jobs, and have no settlement in our village." "A sound and very excellent distinction, Dan.
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