'Oh! Anne,' whispered Elizabeth, as they stood together in the porch,
giving a parting look before she closed the door, 'it is "all
glorious within," even now; and think what it will be to-morrow!'
Nothing more was said till they had left the churchyard, when Anne
exclaimed, looking wistfully towards the railroad, 'Then there is but
one chance of Rupert's coming to-night.'
'When the eight o'clock train comes in,' said Katherine; 'it is that
which is to bring the Hazlebys.'
'I really think,' said Helen, 'that the gas manufactory and the union
poor-house grow more frightful every day. I thought they looked
worse than ever when I came home, and saw the contrast with
Lincolnshire. I hope the old and new towns will long be as different
as they are now.'
'I am afraid they hardly will,' said Anne; 'the old town will soon
begin to rival the new one. You must already find new notions
creeping into it.'
'Creeping!' cried Elizabeth, 'they gallop along the railroad as fast
as steam can carry them. However, we are happily a quiet dull race,
and do not take them in; we only open our eyes and stare at all the
wonders round.
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