Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 447

In the meantime he was going on with the business of courtship, though it was very much against the wish of the proud farmer--the father of Martha Turner. He declared that he would never allow his daughter to marry a weaver, or even a foreman of weavers. Perhaps the story of their courtship is best told in Martha's own words.

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