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The Wanley Iron Works will soon mean bread to several hundred families; how many would the grass support? 'To be sure, assented Hubert, still smiling. 'You are aware, Mutimer proceeded to ask, 'that this is not a speculation for my own profit? 'I have heard something of your scheme. I trust it will be appreciated.
The manuscripts bought by Wanley from Zamboni number eighty-four, and comprise nearly all the important books mentioned in the Graevius catalogue. The Hesiod is the only valuable Greek MS. missing, and the principal Latin MS. of this collection, which did not pass into the Harleian library, is a Terence.
Here there is a mark in the original letter referring to a note written across the margin by Wanley as follows: "This is about the Cottonian Library, the custody whereof I did then, and many years after, most ardently desire. As to friendship between Dr.
The talents of the two men were very different, as the catalogue itself shows. That part of it for which Wanley was responsible contains a description and an abstract of each manuscript. Casley, whose knowledge of the age of manuscripts has never been surpassed, contented himself with fixing their dates without any reference to their contents.
Had the works been fully established it would have been a different thing. Even now he could keep the lad at work at Wanley, though not exactly in the way he desired. But if it came to a choice between a life of idleness in London and such employment as could be found for him at the works, 'Arry must clearly leave town at once.
'Yet I should like to know. 'I shall sweep away every trace of the mines and the works and the houses, and do my utmost to restore the valley to its former state. He paused, but Adela said nothing. Her fingers played with the leaves which grew beside her. 'Your associations with Wanley of course cannot be as strong as my own.
When he heard from the latter that it was Eldon's intention to make a clean sweep of mines, works, and settlements, though for a moment chagrined, he speedily saw that such action, by giving dramatic completeness to his career at Wanley and investing its close with something of tragic pathos, was in truth what he should most have desired.
The Parliamentary elections were very near at hand, and Mutimer almost lived in Belwick; it seemed to Adela that duty required her to be near him, as well as to supply his absence from New Wanley as much as was possible. She was still only the ghost of her former self, but disease no longer threatened her, and activity alone could completely restore her health.
They set forth to walk to the Walthams'. Exercise in the keen air, together with the sense of novelty in her surroundings, restored Alice's good humour before the house was reached. She gazed with astonishment at the infernal glare over New Wanley. Her brother explained the sight to her with gusto. 'It used to be all fields and gardens over there, he said. 'See what money and energy can do!
Some ten years ago it seemed as if better things were in store; there was a chance that the vale might for ever cast off its foolish greenery, and begin vomiting smoke and flames in humble imitation of its metropolis beyond the hills. There are men in Belwick who have an angry feeling whenever Wanley is mentioned to them.
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