Tom Sylvester: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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That charm is all gone now. It faded away slowly but surely, as the color leaves the petal of a rose. The first pufl' of steam blighted it. One tall factory-chimney showered down a little soot into an old fashioned garden, which was soon ploughed up to give the lofty intruder a domineer ing fellow. So, by degrees, Worthingham outgrew its gentle nature, and became the noisy, manufact uring centre that we know to-day. There are no longer any tiger-lilies and four-o'clocks in its shrunken flower-beds. Everywhere has cropped up a crude, pretentious ugliness, too glaring, as suredly, for endurance. In this later hour, which is but an hour that casts a fleeting shadow upon the dial, it is newer and younger than it used to be. It is like some honest rustic, clad for a day in ill chosen garments and finding himself ill at ease.

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