Insufficient to argue bad management, indiscreet purchases of licences at inflated prices! In the excellent old days a brewery would stand an indefinite amount of bad management! Times were changed.

The British workman, caught in a wave of temperance, could no longer be relied upon to drink! It was the crown of his sins against society.

Trade unions were nothing to this latest caprice of his, which spread desolation in a thousand genteel homes.
Alice wondered what her father would have said, had he lived.

On the whole, she was glad that he did not happen to be alive.

The shock to him would have been too rude.