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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell chapter 23 "Mistakes", narrated by Isaac BirchallSubscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :Dhttps://ko-fi.com/theessentialreadshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/joinSummary:Mr Thornton comes home after talking with his Irish workers. He instantly asks where Margaret has gone and is very shocked when his mother tells him that she is better, and has gone home. He asks more questions about Margaret, but his mother wishes to change the topic. He defends his Margaret from his mother and says that he doesn’t know where he would be if she didn’t come out to help him. Mrs. Thornton retorts that girls in love will do anything and is very shocked when she sees how her son reacts to her remark. She tries to go on with her business, but when she does start to talk again, her voice is a little feeble. He says that he will go out again, and tells his mother not to wait up for him. She says that she has to wait for him considering the events of the day. They go back and forth a little while he tries to explain that he wishes to go and check on Margaret and doesn’t know what time he will be back. Mrs. Thornton begs him however no to go, and as she never begs her son for anything, he relinquishes and agrees to come back home as long as they send someone to go and ask about Margaret. They have tea, and just before he goes to leave, she talks quietly with him. She says that she knows what he has to do at the Hale residence, and that causes her son to finally snap and confess, in his own way, his feelings for Margaret, saying that he has little hope.At the Hale residence, Margaret comes home and sees her mother and father. They received a letter from Bessy Higgins, but they all agree that Margaret looks too tired for her to go. Mr. and Mrs. Hale go to bed, and Margaret finally allows herself to think about the events of the day. She asks herself why she went down to help him; the army was only a few minutes away. She did some good but cannot understand why she did it. Dixon comes in and tells her that a man has arrived with the waterbed and says too that he was instructed to ask how she was, but believes that the man must have been confused with her mother. Her father then comes in and tells her to go to bed.SEO stuff I don't want to do. Elizabeth Gaskell's classic, "North and South" sees Margaret Hale's live uprooted as her family moves to the north of England. Initially disgusted by the ugliness of the industrial town of Milton, Margaret develops a strong sense of social justice after seeing the poverty and suffering of local mill workers.
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