No noise--no gathering together of creditors--it was done very silently and quietly, but all was paid at last; helped on materially by the circumstance of one of the creditors, a crabbed old fellow (Mr. Bell says), taking in Mr. Thornton as a kind of partner."
"That really is fine," said Margaret. "What a pity such a nature should be tainted by his position as a Milton manufacturer."
"How tainted?" asked her father.
"Oh, papa, by that testing everything by the standard of wealth. When he spoke of the mechanical powers, he evidently looked upon them only as new ways of extending trade and making money. And the poor men around him--they were poor because they were vicious--out of the pale of his sympathies because they had not his iron nature, and the capabilities that it gives him for being rich."
"Not vicious; he never said that. Improvident and self-indulgent were his words."

It was done very silently, but all was paid at last; helped because one of the creditors, a crabbed old fellow, took in Mr. Thornton as a kind of partner.'
'That really is fine,' said Margaret. 'What a pity such a nature should be tainted by his position as a manufacturer.'
'How tainted?' asked her father.
'Oh, papa, by that testing everything by the standard of wealth. He spoke of mechanical power only as a way of making money. And the poor men around him - they were poor because they were vicious, and had not his iron nature.'
'Not vicious; he never said that. Improvident and self-indulgent were his words.'
