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Yeast: A Problem

CHAPTER XIII: THE VILLAGE REVEL
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Eight or wrong, they've got the thought into their heads, and it's growing there, and they will find an answer for it.

Depend upon it, sir, I tell you a truth, and they expect a change.

You will hear them talk of it to-night, sir, if you've luck.' 'We all expect a change, for that matter,' said Lancelot.

'That feeling is common to all classes and parties just now.' Tregarva took off his hat.
'"For the word of the Lord hath spoken it." Do you know, sir, I long at times that I did agree with those Chartists?
If I did, I'd turn lecturer to-morrow.

How a man could speak out then! If he saw any door of hope, any way of salvation for these poor fellows, even if it was nothing better than salvation by Act of Parliament!' 'But why don't you trust the truly worthy among the clergy and the gentry to leaven their own ranks and bring all right in time ?' 'Because, sir, they seem to be going the way only to make things worse.


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