Idlehurst

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Excerpt from Idlehurst: A Journal Kept in the CountryUnder these conditions of change the chief interes! Lies in watching the collision between old and new in finding survivals and tracing links with a far of past in the refreshing worth and salt of the passing generation, which after a few more winters will b< wholly gone. There are differences of standpoin' between aged labourers in Armington and their grandsons, greater perhaps than the same interva of generation could show in any part of the world' history. The railroad embankments, as Thackera says, have shut off the old world that was behin them. The rare survivors of the pre-railroad are almost as strange to us as a revived Jacobite fifth-monarchy man could be among us to-d And the interest of transition belongs, alas! To t scene as well as to the characters.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.