Excerpt from The Rock Ahead, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel It was all right for the bookmakers this time at Brighton: the favourites, against which so much money had been staked, had been beaten, and dark horses, scarcely heard of, and backed for nothing, had carried Off the principal prizes. SO it followed that most of the gentry of the betting-ring, instead of hurrying Off to the scene Of their next trials of fortune, finding themselves. 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.