In the moment that I heard of the will my action with regard to New Wanley was determined.

What I purpose doing is so inevitably the result of my strongest convictions that nothing could change me.
'Will you tell me what you are going to do ?' Adela asked, in a tone more like his own.
'It will pain You.' 'Yet I should like to know.' 'I shall sweep away every trace of the mines and the works and the houses, and do my utmost to restore the valley to its former state.' He paused, but Adela said nothing.

Her fingers played with the leaves which grew beside her.
'Your associations with Wanley of course cannot be as strong as my own.
I was born here, and every dearest memory of my life connects itself with the valley as it used to be.

It was one of the loveliest spots to be found in England.

You can have no idea of the feelings with which I saw this change fall upon it, this desolation and defilement--I must use the words which come to me.