Sinópse: Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Vol. 2: Picked Up in the French Provinces, by a Walking Gentleman; Priest and Garde Du Corps The dusky haze of a September evening forced me to give up the pursuit; and the night was nearly closing in as I recovered the main road, and trudged along, listening to the rustling of the breeze in the standing oats that skirted each side of the paved causeway. The business of the day being over, the peasants of this un lovely region had all closed their huts, and shut their eyes no doubt, upon the Joyless world. The desolate bleakness around me made me almost long for darkness, as preferable to the dim monotony of the scene. The distant drums and bugles from the town broke at length on my ear, as they sounded their day dirge to the garrison within and the wild blast with its rolling accompaniment awoke a train of thoughts of many a former associate, scattered across the surface of the earth or deeply shrined beneath it. Every step I took seemed to rouse a recollec-n tion, like the spirit of some departed scene; and I walked on, in imagined communism withidle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.