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Excerpt from The Burden of Isabel, Vol. 1 of 3
Wanton kind upon dear Mother Nature. Not very far from the glen (or clough) already indicated there is another - or was, a few years ago - where Nature had not been outraged, but only tamed a little There also were chimney-shafts and buildings and a dam but the chimneys were notably tall, so that smoke and acrid vapours were carried far above the glen; the buildings were half-hid by healthy and stalwart elms, and smothered with ivy and ?owering creepers and the dam looked like a natural lake, its wholesome waters being inhabited by fish and water-fowl, and by the homely duck and the stately swan, and its shady banks overgrown with ?ags and meadow - sweet. There the stream was clear, and frolicked gaily along at its own sweet will, ?ashing over pebbles and circumventing obstructive boulders, or boldly dashing over them. There, too, the turf was turf, green.
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