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CHAPTER I
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From her sitting-room Mrs.
Waltham had the best view to be obtained from any house in Wanley; she looked, as I have said, right over the village street, and on either hand the valley spread before her a charming prospect.

Opposite was the wooded slope, freshening now with exquisite shades of new-born leafage; looking north, she saw fruit-gardens, making tender harmonies; southwards spread verdure and tillage.

Yet something there was which disturbed the otherwise perfect unity of the scene, an unaccustomed trouble to the eye.

In the very midst of the vale, perhaps a quarter of a mile to the south of the village, one saw what looked like the beginning of some engineering enterprise--a great throwing-up of earth, and the commencement of a roadway on which metal rails were laid.

What was being done?
The work seemed too extensive for a mere scheme of drainage.


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