M&D - Chapter 21 - Mason&Rebekah

[Elisabeth Romberg]

In the next paragraph we are with Mason an Rebekah, early days. 
We learn how he longs to get away from The Golden Valleys, but what is Rebekah’s agenda? We got the impression in chapter 18 that something was up with her.

(p. 170-171, she new who he was, a star-gazer. But most telling, on p. 186, «A Pair of Gentlemen came to me one day and said, ‘Here is the one you must marry.’»)

So it’s hard not to have this in the back of the mind when we read about their dating and courtship. 
Maybe even explore feelings of sadness for Mason? For being kept in the dark by Rebekah?



> 12. apr. 2015 kl. 13.43 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>:
> 
> p. 207
> «…that the Flow of Water through Nature (…) might be re-shap’d to drive a Row of Looms, each working thousands of Yarns in strictest right-angularity, (…) nor that every stage of the ‘Morphosis, would have it’s equivalent in Pounds, Shillings and Pence."
> 
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> Stroud is the capital of the south western Cotswolds and located at the divergence of the five Golden Valleys (Chalford, Painswick, Nailsworth, Slad and Cam), so named after the monetary wealth created in the processing of wool from the plentiful supply of power from the River Frome. During the heyday of the wool trade the river powered 150 mills, turning Stroud into the centre of the local cloth industry.
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> 
> Is this first paragraph about the inhumanity of the working conditions at the mills?
> To the benefit of the few?
> 
> About the working conditions at the mills:
> http://www.bacuptimes.co.uk/earlydays.htm <http://www.bacuptimes.co.uk/earlydays.htm>
> So sad.
> 
> Mills today:
> http://plenty.mangoconsulting.co.uk/assets/files/press/2015/Cots%20Life%20Jan%2015%20-%20Stroud%20mills.pdf <http://plenty.mangoconsulting.co.uk/assets/files/press/2015/Cots%20Life%20Jan%2015%20-%20Stroud%20mills.pdf>
> http://www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk/general.asp?pid=22&pgid=822 <http://www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk/general.asp?pid=22&pgid=822>
> 
> "Britain from above" showing Fromehall and Lodgemore Woollen Mills and environs, in Stroud, 1938:
> http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw059695?name=STROUD&gazetteer=STROUD&POPULATED_PLACE=STROUD&ADMIN_AREA=Stroud&ref=49 <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw059695?name=STROUD&gazetteer=STROUD&POPULATED_PLACE=STROUD&ADMIN_AREA=Stroud&ref=49>
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