The Cotton Factory of To-day

Chapter 9 The five-shilling piece which Mord Em’ly had received from the princesses for swift honesty was shown to nobody but Ronicker. The coin had a fine, substantial look about it, as though it were capable of almost anything, and Mord Em’ly, having exhibited it to her friend, returned it to her bodice. The two…

Alice’s Evidence

Chapter 19 It was certainly not inclination that took Mord Em’ly by the ear that evening, and led her slowly but determinedly to Greenwich. Fear was mainly responsible, aided, perhaps, by a reckless spirit of fatalism. The little woman had kissed Henry Barden’s letter a good many times before she had started out—had pinned it…

Chapter 11 Mord Em’ly gave so much satisfaction as a vegetable girl in the kitchen at the back of Mrs. Mitchell’s dining-rooms that in a few weeks she, to her great content, was promoted to the position of assistant waitress. Here her natural alertness made her useful; the work suited her, and the patrons, finding…