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Page 5
... side inns were still brilliant with well - polished tankards , the smiling glances of pretty barmaids , and the repartees of jocose hostlers ; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn ; the hedge - cutter or the ...
... side inns were still brilliant with well - polished tankards , the smiling glances of pretty barmaids , and the repartees of jocose hostlers ; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn ; the hedge - cutter or the ...
Page 8
... side of an olive - green gig . They probably thought of the coach with some contempt , as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs , or who , wanting to travel to London and such distant places , belonged to the trading ...
... side of an olive - green gig . They probably thought of the coach with some contempt , as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs , or who , wanting to travel to London and such distant places , belonged to the trading ...
Page 9
... ground , or ' stretching far by the road - side , allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working - day world . In these midland districts A 2 THE RADICAL . 9 ed with coal-pits, the rattle of hand...
... ground , or ' stretching far by the road - side , allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working - day world . In these midland districts A 2 THE RADICAL . 9 ed with coal-pits, the rattle of hand...
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... side by grand larches , oaks , and wych elms , which sometimes open- ed so far as to let the traveler see that there was a park behind them . How many times in the year , as the coach rolled past the neglected - looking lodges which ...
... side by grand larches , oaks , and wych elms , which sometimes open- ed so far as to let the traveler see that there was a park behind them . How many times in the year , as the coach rolled past the neglected - looking lodges which ...
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... side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors bordering the road , that they might be ready to get up and make their courtesy when a traveling - carriage should ...
... side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors bordering the road , that they might be ready to get up and make their courtesy when a traveling - carriage should ...
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