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Moreover
,
the
healthy
spirits
who
had
mounted
to
this
sublime
height
were
attractive
to
many
of
the
Gradgrind
school
.
They
liked
fine
gentlemen
;
they
pretended
that
they
did
not
,
but
they
did
.
They
became
exhausted
in
imitation
of
them
;
and
they
yaw-yawed
in
their
speech
like
them
;
and
they
served
out
,
with
an
enervated
air
,
the
little
mouldy
rations
of
political
economy
,
on
which
they
regaled
their
disciples
.
There
never
before
was
seen
on
earth
such
a
wonderful
hybrid
race
as
was
thus
produced
.
Among
the
fine
gentlemen
not
regularly
belonging
to
the
Gradgrind
school
,
there
was
one
of
a
good
family
and
a
better
appearance
,
with
a
happy
turn
of
humour
which
had
told
immensely
with
the
House
of
Commons
on
the
occasion
of
his
entertaining
it
with
his
(
and
the
Board
of
Directors
)
view
of
a
railway
accident
,
in
which
the
most
careful
officers
ever
known
,
employed
by
the
most
liberal
managers
ever
heard
of
,
assisted
by
the
finest
mechanical
contrivances
ever
devised
,
the
whole
in
action
on
the
best
line
ever
constructed
,
had
killed
five
people
and
wounded
thirty-two
,
by
a
casualty
without
which
the
excellence
of
the
whole
system
would
have
been
positively
incomplete
.
Among
the
slain
was
a
cow
,
and
among
the
scattered
articles
unowned
,
a
widow
's
cap
.
And
the
honourable
member
had
so
tickled
the
House
(
which
has
a
delicate
sense
of
humour
)
by
putting
the
cap
on
the
cow
,
that
it
became
impatient
of
any
serious
reference
to
the
Coroner
's
Inquest
,
and
brought
the
railway
off
with
Cheers
and
Laughter
.
Now
,
this
gentleman
had
a
younger
brother
of
still
better
appearance
than
himself
,
who
had
tried
life
as
a
Cornet
of
Dragoons
,
and
found
it
a
bore
;
and
had
afterwards
tried
it
in
the
train
of
an
English
minister
abroad
,
and
found
it
a
bore
;
and
had
then
strolled
to
Jerusalem
,
and
got
bored
there
;
and
had
then
gone
yachting
about
the
world
,
and
got
bored
everywhere
.
To
whom
this
honourable
and
jocular
,
member
fraternally
said
one
day
,
'
Jem
,
there
's
a
good
opening
among
the
hard
Fact
fellows
,
and
they
want
men
.
I
wonder
you
do
n't
go
in
for
statistics
.
'
Jem
,
rather
taken
by
the
novelty
of
the
idea
,
and
very
hard
up
for
a
change
,
was
as
ready
to
'
go
in
'
for
statistics
as
for
anything
else
.
So
,
he
went
in
.
He
coached
himself
up
with
a
blue-book
or
two
;
and
his
brother
put
it
about
among
the
hard
Fact
fellows
,
and
said
,
'
If
you
want
to
bring
in
,
for
any
place
,
a
handsome
dog
who
can
make
you
a
devilish
good
speech
,
look
after
my
brother
Jem
,
for
he
's
your
man
.
'
After
a
few
dashes
in
the
public
meeting
way
,
Mr.
Gradgrind
and
a
council
of
political
sages
approved
of
Jem
,
and
it
was
resolved
to
send
him
down
to
Coketown
,
to
become
known
there
and
in
the
neighbourhood
.
Hence
the
letter
Jem
had
last
night
shown
to
Mrs.
Sparsit
,
which
Mr.
Bounderby
now
held
in
his
hand
;
superscribed
,
'
Josiah
Bounderby
,
Esquire
,
Banker
,
Coketown
.
Specially
to
introduce
James
Harthouse
,
Esquire
.
Thomas
Gradgrind
.
'
Within
an
hour
of
the
receipt
of
this
dispatch
and
Mr.
James
Harthouse
's
card
,
Mr.
Bounderby
put
on
his
hat
and
went
down
to
the
Hotel
.
There
he
found
Mr.
James
Harthouse
looking
out
of
window
,
in
a
state
of
mind
so
disconsolate
,
that
he
was
already
half-disposed
to
'
go
in
'
for
something
else
.
'
My
name
,
sir
,
'
said
his
visitor
,
'
is
Josiah
Bounderby
,
of
Coketown
.
'
Mr.
James
Harthouse
was
very
happy
indeed
(
though
he
scarcely
looked
so
)
to
have
a
pleasure
he
had
long
expected
.
'
Coketown
,
sir
,
'
said
Bounderby
,
obstinately
taking
a
chair
,
'
is
not
the
kind
of
place
you
have
been
accustomed
to
.
Therefore
,
if
you
will
allow
me
--
or
whether
you
will
or
not
,
for
I
am
a
plain
man
--
I
'll
tell
you
something
about
it
before
we
go
any
further
.
'
Mr.
Harthouse
would
be
charmed
.
