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"It is enough to break one's heart," said Mr. Balmy when he had outstripped the procession, and my father was again beside him. " ‘As well as,' indeed! We know what that means. Wherever there is a factory there is a hotbed of unbelief. ‘As well as'! Why it is a defiance."
"What, I wonder," said my father innocently, "must the Sunchild's feelings be, as he looks down on this procession. For there can be little doubt that he is doing so."