Edmund; in one of the brick niches thereof dwells the present
respectable Mayor of Bury.

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* Goods, properties; what we now call _chattels,_ and still more
singularly _cattle,_ says my erudite friend!
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Certain Times do crystallise themselves in a magnificent manner;
and others, perhaps, are like to do it in rather a shabby one!--
But Richard Arkwright too will have his Monument, a thousand
years hence: all Lancashire and Yorkshire, and how many other
shires and countries, with their machineries and industries, for
his monument! A true _pyr_amid or _'flame_-mountain,' flaming
with steam fires and useful labour over wide continents, usefully
towards the Stars, to a certain height;--how much grander than
your foolish Cheops Pyramids or Sakhara clay ones! Let us withal
be hopeful, be content or patient.




Chapter IV

Abbot Hugo


It is true, all things have two faces, a light one and a dark.
It is true, in three centuries much imperfection accumulates;
many an Ideal, monastic or other, shooting forth into practice as