The Iron Duke of Blackwood
The fog that rose from the Manchester mills did not behave like ordinary fog. It clung to the cobblestones with the persistence of a lover who knows she will be abandoned, and it carried with it the scent of coal smoke and human desperation. Thomas Ashworth walked through it every morning at half-past five, a boy of sixteen with lungs like torn paper, heading toward the textile factory where he...
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