After a few months, Mr. Hale also dies while visiting Oxford, and Mr. Bell, his friend and Margaret's godfather, takes her responsibility. The consecutive deaths make Margaret lonelier ...

Mr. Hale is survived his wife, Rosemary; three daughters, Margaret Hale Teaford, Eunice Hale Shields, and Marion Hale; two sisters; and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be private.

The heroine, Margaret Hale, an outsider from southern England, urges her new friend John Thornton, a cotton-mill owner, to “speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly.