Excerpt from Tales From "Blackwood", Vol. 7: Being the Most Famous Series of Stories Ever Published Especially Selected From That Celebrated English PublicationAs we drove along the straight country lane from the little wayside station, it forcibly struck me that a. Life in such a place must be dreary indeed. I have always been much in¿uenced by local colour 3 above all things, I am depressed by a dead level, and here was monotony with a vengeance. On each side of the low hedges, lichen-covered and wind-cropped.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.