Excerpt from Holt of Heathfield Drawn up at the curb in front of the Church stood a shining closed carriage with a spirited pair of bays and liveried coachman and foot man. A handsome man of thirty-two or more was waiting with manifest impatience on the pavement near at hand. His Prince Albert coat was buttoned closely about a figure whose elegance of proportion inclined slightly to embonpoint. Just behind his carriage stood an unpretentious open surrey with one staid family horse held by a driver whose only mark of livery was his beaver hat. These two alone were now left of a long line of equipages which had awaited the close of service. A stout gentleman with a ruddy face and heavy white mustache, paused as he came down the path from the church door to return the deferential greeting of the man by the carriage. 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.