It was obviously well managed by the tenant, and Kit approved.
Modern machines and methods, although expensive, were good and were needed in the dale.

The trouble was, they sometimes gave the man who could use them power to rob his poorer neighbors.

Kit saw that concentrated power was often dangerous, and since unorganized, individual effort was no longer profitable, he knew no cure but cooperation.
Although young, he was seldom rash.

Enthusiasm is not common in the bleak northern dales, whose inhabitants are, for the most part, conservative and slow.

Wind and rain had hardened him and he had inherited a reserved strength and quietness from ancestors who had braved the storms that raged about Ashness.