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Excerpt from Wenderholme a Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire, Vol. 2 of 3
Our Jacob, or big Jacob, or Jacob at Milend, as he now began to be called In the Ogden family, to distinguish him from his nephew and homonym, had arrived at that point in the career of every successful cotton-spinner when a feeling of great embarrassment arises as to the comparative wis dom of purchasing an estate or laying down a new mill. When his brother Isaac retired from the concern with ten thousand pounds, Jacob had not precisely cheated him, perhaps, but he had made a bargain which, considered prospectively, was highly favourable to his own interest; and since he had been alone, the profits from the mill had been so considerable that his savings had vol. II. A.
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