... wrath;they are to be banished from the land which their fathers held, to beturned adrift to seek a new method of life, to be pulled down from theirposition as men of property, and exposed to the world ... that top room in the mill, – and they’re to sleepthere, to keep them safe from those brutes, who will neither work nor letthem work . . . some of the women are crying to go back’’ ( )– ‘‘back,’’ ... circumstances.’’²⁷Following the example of the Preston masters and the advice of hismother, Thornton, too, ‘‘import[s]’’ (e.g., , , , ) Irish – butnot English – women and men to take the place of the striking...