With the Procession: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is a very capable and comprehensive vehicle, as conveyances of that kind go. It is not new, it is not precisely in the mode; but it shows material and workmanship of the best grade, and it is washed, oiled, polished with scrupulous care. It advances with. Some deliberation, and one might fancy hearing in the rattle of its tires, or in the sup pressed flapping of its rear curtain, a word of plain tive protest. I am not of the great world, it seems to say; I make no pretence to fashion. We are steady and solid, but we are not precisely in society, and we are far, very far indeed, from any attempt to cut a great figure. However, do not misunderstand our position; it is not that we are under, nor that we are exactly aside; perhaps we have been left just a little behind. Yes, that might express it - just a little behind.

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