The History of David Grieve 3
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What he had actually witnessed had been the struggle of a hidden life to realise certain ideal aims under conditions of familiar difficulty and limitation, the dying down of that initial brilliance and passion to succeed, into a wrestle of conscience as sensitive as it was profound, as tenacious as it was scrupulous. He had watched an unsatisfactory marriage, had realised the silent resolve of the north-countryman to stand by his own people, of the man sprung from the poor to cling to the poor ...: he had become familiar with the veins of melancholy by which both character and life were crossed. That glit- tering prince of circumstance as he had once foreseen him, was still enshrined in memory and fancy ; but the real man was knit to the cripple's inmost heart..
232 THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE Another observer, perhaps, might have wondered at Ancrum's sense of difference and disillusion. For David after all had made a mark. As he sat talking to Ancrum of the new buildings behind the printing-office where he now employed from two to three hundred men, of the ups and downs of his profit-sharing experiences, of this apprentices' school for the sons of members of the ^ house,' imitated from one of the same kind founded by a great French printing firm, and the object just now of a passionate energy of work on David's part — or as he diverged into the history of an important trade dispute in Manchester, where he had been appointed arbitrator by the unanimous voice of both sides — as he told these things, it was not doubtful even for Ancrum that his power and consideration were spreading in his own town.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What he had actually witnessed had been the struggle of a hidden life to realise certain ideal aims under conditions of familiar difficulty and limitation, the dying down of that initial brilliance and passion to succeed, into a wrestle of conscience as sensitive as it was profound, as tenacious as it was scrupulous. He had watched an unsatisfactory marriage, had realised the silent resolve of the north-countryman to stand by his own people, of the man sprung from the poor to cling to the poor ...: he had become familiar with the veins of melancholy by which both character and life were crossed. That glit- tering prince of circumstance as he had once foreseen him, was still enshrined in memory and fancy ; but the real man was knit to the cripple's inmost heart..
232 THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE Another observer, perhaps, might have wondered at Ancrum's sense of difference and disillusion. For David after all had made a mark. As he sat talking to Ancrum of the new buildings behind the printing-office where he now employed from two to three hundred men, of the ups and downs of his profit-sharing experiences, of this apprentices' school for the sons of members of the ^ house,' imitated from one of the same kind founded by a great French printing firm, and the object just now of a passionate energy of work on David's part — or as he diverged into the history of an important trade dispute in Manchester, where he had been appointed arbitrator by the unanimous voice of both sides — as he told these things, it was not doubtful even for Ancrum that his power and consideration were spreading in his own town.
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