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At all events , I shall not go away for the present . '' `` Well , '' she returned , but she could not keep the great gladness out of her voice . Having thus made his election , Jack Darcy looked sturdily about to see what was to be done , and the best way to do it . He asked two of the old over-lookers , Hurd and Bradley , to meet him at Maverick 's office ; and there they discussed co-operation until long past midnight . They looked into the cotton-mill connected with the Rochdale experiment ; they read up the workings of those at Oldham and Lancashire , of the industries in France , and banking in Germany . `` Here we are , '' said Jack , `` with so much of our lives spent in learning to manage looms and turn out different kinds of cloth . People must wear clothes until the millennium , and cloth will be made .