Felix Holt, the Radical: Library Edition Mp3 Una edition

Five-AND-THIRTY years ago the glory had not yet i departed from the old coach rotwis: the great roadside inns were still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose I ostlers; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher miht I still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise I meteoric apparition of the pea-gi-ecn Tally-no or the yellow I ndependent; and elderly gentlemen in pony-chaises, quartering nervously to make way for the rolling, swinging jswiftness, had not ceased to remark that times were finely changed since they used to see the pack-horses and hear I the tinkling of their bells on this very highway. I In those days 4here were pocket boroughs, a Birmingham unrepresented in Parliament and compelled to make i strong representations out of it, unrepealed com-laws, 1three-and-sixpenny letters, a brawny and many-breeding 1pauperism, and otner departed evils; but there were some pleasant things, too, which have also departed. No7i omnia grandior mtas qum fugiamus habet, says the wise i goddess: you have not the best of it in all thin, 0youngj sters! the elderly man has his enviable memories, and not the least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid Ispring or autumn on the outside of a stage coach. Pos terity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube, by atmoa pheric pressure, from Winchester to Newcastle: that is a ;fine result to have among our hopes; but the slow, oldi fashioned way of getting from one end of our country to i the other is tne better thing to have in the memory.
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