Excerpt from The Minder: The Story of the Courtship, Call and Conflicts of John Ledger, Minder and Minister The engines Of the Bramwell new mill had just stopped for the night, and the hands were streaming out through the great gates near the boiler-house. AS it was nearly dark, and a drizzling, sticky sort Of rain was falling, the workpeople were all making homewards as fast as possible, and there was a clatter of innumerable clogs on the flagged sidewalk. Most of the hands were going in couples, but there was one young fellow who was walking by himself, and had his head down. There was nothing in the least remarkable about him, except that his dark hair was a little longer than usual, and suggested amateur and not too frequent barbering, whilst his greasy Old hat was soft and round, and looked as if it might once have been a parson's wide-awake. He had a plain, Open face, a little sharper perhaps than it ought to have been, and that seemed to indicate that he was already finding life somewhat hard. His clothes, too, shiny with wear and mill-oil, hung some what loosely upon him, and created the impression that the body they covered was not so well nourished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.