� the and the railway and the thoughts that shake mankind she weighed his words and said slowly ah yes you allude to my father my father was a great man but i am more and more forgetting his greatness that kind of greatness is what a woman can never truly enter into i am less and less his daughter every day that goes by she walked away a few steps to the excellent mrs who as still perceived was waiting for at the of distances in the shadows at the further end of the building surely s voice had faltered and she had turned to hide a tear were he sure of that the manner which he could not would have no cold hearted meaning in it but would be only an external peculiarity of her nature she came back again did you know that my father made half the in europe including that one over there she said waving her little hand in the direction whence low were occasionally heard during the day yes how did you know miss de told me a little and i then found his name and doings were quite to me curiously enough or perhaps naturally since it a y was a main line of with his words there came through the broken windows the murmur of a train in the distance sounding clearer and more clear it was nothing to listen to yet they both listened till the increasing noise suddenly broke off into dead silence it has gone into the said have you seen the my father made the curves are said to be a triumph of science there is nothing else like it in this part of england there is not i have heard so but i have not seen it do you think it a thing more to be proud of that one s father should have made a great and railway like that than that one s remote should have built a great castle like this what could say it would have required a to decide whether his answer should depend upon his conviction or upon the family ties of such a his own family had been rather of the high old fashioned sort he himself was rather ag artist than a man of science and had his a de s not much doubt about the answer that would have risen to his from a modem point of view are no doubt things more to be proud of than castles he said though perhaps i from mere association should decide in favour of the who built the castle the serious anxiety that threw into his observation as if nothing but honest truth were available was more than the circumstance required but she herself was in such a thoughtful mood that mere politeness without conviction would after all hardly have met the case to design great f m george works he added and without the least eye to the of her parent requires no doubt a leading mind but to execute them requires of course only a following mind his reply did not altogether please her and there was a distinct reproach conveyed by her slight movement towards mrs he saw it and was grieved that he should have spoken so i am going to walk over and inspect that famous of your father s he added gently it will be a pleasant study for this afternoon she went away i am no man of the world he thought i ought to have praised hers f straight off i shall not win her respect much less her love a chapter xii did not forget what he had planned and when lunch was over he walked away through the trees the was more difficult of discovery than he had anticipated and it was only after considerable winding among green lanes whose deep were like of in miniature that he reached the slope in the distant where the began a road stretched over its crest and thence along one side of the railway cutting he there unexpectedly saw standing miss power s carriage and on drawing nearer he found it to contain herself miss de and mrs how singular exclaimed miss de gaily it is most natural said instantly in the morning two people discuss a feature in the landscape and in the afternoon each has a desire to see it from what the other has said of it therefore they accidentally meet now had distinctly heard declare that he was going to walk there how then could she say this so coolly it was with a pang at his heart that he returned to his old thought of her being possibly a finished and whatever she might be she was not a creature very stiffly by looked down on the mouth of the george the absurdity of the popular commonplace that science steam and travel must always be and hideous was proved on the spot on either slope of the deep cutting green with long grass grew drooping f young trees of ash and other varieties i their foliage almost concealing the actual railway which ran along the bottom its thin steel rails gleaming like silver threads in the depths the front of the faced with brick that had once been red was now weather stained and over in harmonious hues of rusty and at the very base appearing a little spot like a mouse hole � the s mouth the carriage was drawn up quite close to the wood and was looking down at the same time with him but he made no remark to her mrs broke the silence by saying if it were not a railway we should call it a lovely � agreed with her adding that it was so charming that he felt inclined to go down if you do perhaps miss power will order you up again as a said de you are one 