His wife, till she was past learn ing, had heard no music but that of machinery in full play.
Old Gordon himself, of Gordon's Mill, was just musician enough to distinguish the first bar O O of God save the King from that of Rule Britannia.  His wife, till she was past learn ing, had heard no music but that of machinery in full play.  She had been a factory hand when old Gordon, then young Gordon, married her, neither for a pretty face nor for accomplishments, but for the more excellent qualities that eminently fitted her for the wife of a man who had risen in life, to fifteen shillings a week, from nothing a day.