God is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield

Author:R.F. Delderfield
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 2009-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

He went first to his father-in-law in Rochdale, finding Sam submerged in the general gloom, and this despite the fact that his chimney was one of the few still sending up a plume of smoke.

“Aye, but it's a desperate business, lad,” said Sam, when Adam commented on the slump. “You’ll ask me summat I can’t tell you if you ask how it's likely to finish. In bankruptcy all round as like as not, and half-a-million on parish relief. Ah’m still running but I’ll be silent come autumn, this road. Living on me fat, you might say, for I saw this a mile off, and stocked up, as well as hoisting my rates. But nine mills out of ten are on quarter-time, and thirty shut bloody gates long since. None of us bargained for a war running to years, and that's a fact. A twel’month, or half as long again mebbe, but there's no sign of it finishing yet, or any one o’ the plantation ports opening up and shipping over.”

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