"It is unfortunately but too true, M.Agricola.At Lille, when I reached the factory, wet through with a cold rain, I used sometimes to shiver all day long at my work."
"Therefore, Mdlle.Angela, the speculator might say: `To lodge my workmen close to the door of my factory would obviate this inconvenience.Let us make the calculation.In Paris the married workman pays about two hundred and fifty francs a-year,[30] for one or two wretched rooms and a closet, dark, small, unhealthy, in a narrow, miserable street; there he lives pell-mell with his family.What ruined constitutions are the consequence! and what sort of work can you expect from a feverish and diseased creature? As for the single men, they pay for a smaller, and quite as unwholesome lodging, about one hundred and fifty francs a-year.
Now, let us make the addition.I employ one hundred and forty-six married workmen, who pay together, for their wretched holes, thirty-six thousand five hundred francs; I employ also one hundred and fifteen bachelors, who pay at the rate of seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty francs; the total will amount to about fifty thousand francs per annum, the interest on a million."'