A favourable land for rails: and she had looked over it: and he was now becoming a wealthy man: and she was a married woman straining the leash.

His errand would not bear examination, it seemed such a desperate long shot.

He shut his inner vision on it, and pricked forward.

When the burning sunset shot waves above the juniper and yews behind him, he was far on the weald, trotting down an interminable road.
That the people opposing railways were not people of business, was his reflection, and it returned persistently: for practical men, even the most devoted among them, will think for themselves; their army, which is the rational, calls them to its banners, in opposition to the sentimental; and Redworth joined it in the abstract, summoning the horrible state of the roads to testify against an enemy wanting almost in common humaneness.

A slip of his excellent stepper in one of the half-frozen pits of the highway was the principal cause of his confusion of logic; she was half on her knees.