A spinner's hands can do nothing but spin.
They are unfit for any other labor and are spoiled for spinning if they try it.

Servants live in other people's houses.

Nearly all of Hatton's spinners own, or partly own, their homes.

In its seclusion they can bear with patience whatever they have to bear." Throughout the past three years of trouble John had been the Greatheart of his people, and they loved and trusted him.

They knew that he had mortgaged or sold all his estate in order to buy cotton and keep them at work.