Excerpt from A Year of Consolation, Vol. 1 of 2: By Mrs. Butler We got into our coup???, and so off to Rouen. Before we were well out of Havre, a heavy snow-storm came on, and the horses of our grotesque equipage were the only part of the prospect which the blinding storm left visible. As, however, I had never travelled by diligence before, they furnished me with abundant amusement - the variety of their equipment, size, and gait - the obstinate little trot of some, and the unprevailing frantic canter of others especially ...
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Excerpt from A Year of Consolation, Vol. 1 of 2: By Mrs. Butler We got into our coup???, and so off to Rouen. Before we were well out of Havre, a heavy snow-storm came on, and the horses of our grotesque equipage were the only part of the prospect which the blinding storm left visible. As, however, I had never travelled by diligence before, they furnished me with abundant amusement - the variety of their equipment, size, and gait - the obstinate little trot of some, and the unprevailing frantic canter of others especially did I admire the ingenious twisting up of their tails, which, with an eye to my own back hair, as Dickens calls it, I should like mightily to have the recipe for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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