Note 12 — I.
Reading edition
What I mean here will be understood by a reference to Emile Souvestre's "Philosophe sous les Toits." In a pretty story of two women employed in a clasp-factory, he speaks of their low wages, and says, that, having worked for thirty years, they had seen ten masters grow wealthy and retire from business, without having changed, in any degree, their own position.
These claspmakers certainly supported these ten masters and their families in ease; and, wonderful to relate, these two did not fall.
An angel, clothed in white, sat on the sepulchre wherein their hopes were buried, all through that thirty years.