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Bobby was so indignant at the conduct of Mr. Hardhand, that he entirely / forgot the adventure of the morning; and he did not even think of the / gold he had in his pocket. He loved his mother; he knew how hard she / had worked for him and his brother and sisters; that she had burned the / "midnight oil" at her clamps; and it made him feel very bad to near her / abused as Mr. Hardhand was abusing her. It was not her fault that she / had not the money to pay him. She had been obliged to spend a large / portion of her time over the sick beds of her children, so that she / could not earn so much money as usual; while the family expenses were / necessarily much greater.
Bobby knew also that Mr. Hardhand was aware of all the circumstances of / his mother's position, and the more he considered the case the more / brutal and inhuman was his course.