These men, however, saw and handled the results of their toil, great freight-trains speeding over the trestles they had built, vast bands of cattle, and leagues of splendid wheat.

After all, the genius of London is administrative and not constructive, and it is the latter that appeals most directly to the Colonial.

One can see the forests go down or the great rocks rent, but the results that merely figure in the balance-sheet are less apparent.
There was another matter that claimed Ida's attention.

She would meet Gregory Kinnaird at the dance, and she had seen a good deal of him during the last few months.

He was not formal like his father, and in most respects she liked the man; and there was no doubt whatever that he neglected no opportunity for enjoying her company.