Martha and I are very happy, and if all the news we hear is true, I expect you to be living by the factory bell when we get home.

Dear, good John, we love you and think of you and talk of you all the day long.
JANE.
Jane's letters came constantly and they gave to this period of getting ready for work again a sense of great elation.

If a man only passed John on the hill or in the corridors of the mill during these days, he caught spirit and energy and hope from his up-head and happy face and firm step.

At the beginning of May the poor women had commenced with woeful hearts to clean their denuded houses, and make them as homelike as they could; and before May was half over, peace was won and there were hundreds of cotton ships upon the Atlantic.
John's finished goods were all now in Manchester warehouses, and Greenwood was watching the arrival of cotton and its prices in Liverpool.

John had very little money--none in fact that he could use for cotton, but he confidently expected it, though ignorant of any certain cause for expectation.
As he was eating dinner with his mother one day, she said, "Whatever have you sent Greenwood to Liverpool for ?" "To buy any cotton he can." "But you have no money." "Simpson and Hager paid me at once for the calicoes I sent them.