Excerpt from Felix Holt, the Radical Five-and-thirty years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach-roads: the great roadside inns were' still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and therepartees of jocose ostlers the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of-the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher 'might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise meteoric apparition of the pea-green Tally-ho or the yellow Independent; andel de'rly gentlemen in pony-chaises, quartering nervously to make way for the rolling swinging swiftness, had-not ceased tore mark that times were finely changed since they used to see the pack-horses and hear' the tinkling of. Their bells' on this very highway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.