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21 " He is a monstrous man, Father. His land and riches are all wrenched from the poor who labour in his infernal mines . . . It is the least he owes them to educate their children. "
― Mick Kitson , Featherweight
22 " He is a very interesting fellow, Judith, and a first-rate mathematician. He is to be company for me, my dear girl. I do sometimes feel the need for a little communion with gentlemen, living as I do in the midst of ladies. "
23 " your church for making it possible for a poor child like me to have the gift of reading and writing which has opened my eyes to the glories of God in this world where there is so much wickedness and want. "
24 " And you think I must’ve said something to rattle his balls. Why? Because I’m a stupid gypo who lives in an alehouse? "
25 " Annie, we should show respect and deference to those who deserve and earn our respect. I do not believe we should simply defer and belittle ourselves to a person simply because of the station they have been allotted in life. A station allotted by man, not God. Simply because a man has inherited wealth and land and position it does not follow that he is worthy of unquestioning respect. In the eyes of God we are all equal and we are all worthy of equal respect. "
26 " I apologise, Missus. I have a temper, I do. But our Kenny knows nothing of it. The lassie was braiding me for being Scots and I saw red. I am so sorry for any trouble I have brought you, Missus. "
27 " fact, the doctor told him, the way the Lord had made this world meant that there could be no good without evil, there could be no gain without loss, and no healing without pain. "
28 " He said in America it dint matter if you was a gypsy or Irish or a Scotchman, or the poorest miner or nailer, you got a chance to better yourself, and in California there was gold in the hills for the taking. "
29 " I am the famous Miss Stych from Brum and I’ve come to skin the gypo bitch. Put yer money on me, lads, and I’ll not let you down. "
30 " We were all hungry last months, and wandering we were always hungry, crying hungry and swelling-belly hungry and Mercy cried all the nights long. The babby Charity dint cry and that was worse, meant she was sad, sick and fading. "
31 " That night I floated over like a bird and I sent vile curses down upon them men who stamped and spitted at us as they harried us from their copse. "
32 " In Annie’s bedchamber Tommy could hear the chatter and roar of the crowd and it grew too much for him to simply listen. He wanted to see his little sister doing as his father had done and he wanted to be there if she needed protection. "
33 " And there shoulda bin a lesson, but where I shoulda steadied myself and got my rhythm back, I got a hot flash of temper and seen the red as she hit me, thinking, you’re gonna bleed, ya bitch! And when you see the red, you don’t think and you don’t read. "
34 " On the contrary. I believe I should like to talk with Miss Annie Perry. I should like to find out what it is about her that holds my daughters in such thrall that they disobey their father and put themselves at risk. That is, if the child has not been arrested and thrown into gaol along with her notorious father. "
35 " I do not, Annie. Nor do I care to have one. I believe I shall not marry, for it binds a woman so and I have plans for my life. And I certainly would not care to be fawned over by someone as tedious as Mr McLean, handsome or not. "
36 " His circle of friends were as all rich and, largely, idle as he, and they cultivated a foppish effeminacy of dress and manners, which they took delight in subverting by their quickness to combat and fisticuffs. "