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Of these five Bursley is
the mother, but Hanbridge is the largest. They are mean and forbidding
of aspect—sombre, hard-featured, uncouth; and the vaporous poison of
their ovens and chimneys has soiled and shrivelled the surrounding
country till there is no village lane within a league but what offers a
gaunt and ludicrous travesty of rural charms. Nothing could be more
prosaic than the huddled, red-brown streets; nothing more seemingly
remote from romance. Yet be it said that romance is even here—the
romance which, for those who have an eye to perceive it, ever dwells
amid the seats of industrial manufacture, softening the coarseness,
transfiguring the squalor, of these mighty alchemic operations. Look
down into the valley from this terrace-height where love is kindling,
embrace the whole smoke-girt amphitheatre in a glance, and it may be
that you will suddenly comprehend the secret and superb significance of
the vast Doing which goes forward below. Because th
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