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BETWEEN TWO LOVES
CHAPTER I.
LOVER OR BROTHER?
"With cylinder and beam,
And fine conducting skill,
Torture the straitened steam
To work thy reasoned will.
"Then, 'mid thy workshop's dusty din
Where Titan steam hath sway,
Croon to thyself a song within,
Or pour the lusty lay."
Prof. Blackie.
"Their love in early infancy began,
And rose as childhood ripened into man."
Success is the one thing forever good, that success which is the reward of the self-helpful and the persevering; and standing in Burley Mill, Jonathan Burley was not inclined to underrate either his own merits or the reward they had brought him. The clickity-clackity clickity-clackity of the looms, the whirr-r-ring of the belts and drums, and the hum-m-m-
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