Barr Amelia E.. The Paper Cap. A Story of Love and Labor
CHAPTER I – THE SQUIRE OF ANNIS
CHAPTER II – THE PROSPECT OF LONDON LIFE
CHAPTER III – THE REALIZATION OF TROUBLE
CHAPTER IV – LONDON AND AUNT JOSEPHA
CHAPTER V – THE DISORDER CALLED LOVE
CHAPTER VI – FASHION AND FAMINE
CHAPTER VII – IN THE FOURTH WATCH
CHAPTER VIII – LOVE’S TENDER PHANTASY
CHAPTER IX – LOVERS QUARREL AND THE SQUIRE MAKES A SPEECH
CHAPTER X – THE GREAT BILL PASSES
CHAPTER XI – AUNT JOSEPHA INTERFERES
CHAPTER XII – THE SQUIRE MAKES GOOD
CHAPTER XIII – MARRIAGE BELLS AND GOOD-BY TO ANNIS
CHAPTER XIV – A RECALL
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NEARLY ninety years ago, there was among the hills and wolds of the West Riding of Yorkshire a lovely village called Annis. It had grown slowly around the lords of the manor of Annis and consisted at the beginning of the nineteenth century of men and women whose time was employed in spinning and weaving. The looms were among their household treasures. They had a special apartment in every home, and were worthily and cheerfully worked by their owners. There were no mills in Annis then, and no masters, and no Trade Unions. They made their own work-hours and the Leeds Cloth Hall settled the worth of their work.
Squire Antony Annis owned the greater part of the village. The pretty white stone cottages, each in its own finely cared-for garden, were, generally speaking, parts of his estate and he took a fatherly, masterly care of them. It was the squire who bought their work, and who had to settle with the Leeds Cloth Hall. It was the squire who found the wool for the women to spin and who supplied the men with the necessary yarns.
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“She wrote a laughable, foolish letter back and said: ‘As she was two years older than Antony Annis she could not frame her mouth to ‘father’ him, but that she was, and always would be, his loving sister.’ You see Josepha Temple was the eldest child of the late squire, your father came two years after her.”
“And pray what has Lydia Wilson to do with thy father’s money and business? Thou ought to have asked her that question. Whether thou understands thy father or not, whatever he does ought to be right in thy eyes. Men don’t like explaining their affairs to anyone; especially to women, and I doan’t believe they iver tell the bottom facts, even to themselves.”
