THE ROAD. 
&c., almost all got up, as Mr. Robins's advertisements 
say, " regardless of expense," * flows on unbroken, until 
it is half-past seven, and people at last must begin to 
think of what they still call dinner. Old Seneca tells 
us such a blaze of splendour was once to be seen on 
the Appian Way. It might be so : it is now to be 
seen nowhere but in London. 
* Already, however, like all other trades, coach-makmg is on the wane. 
Two years back, the town-coach could not be had under four hundred 
guineas. Three hundred is the price now. The travelling-chariot, with 
everything complete, could not be purchased under three hundred and 
eighty guineas ; three hundred will now suffice. The town-cabriolet, 
with patent boxes to the wheels, commenced at a hundred and fifty 
guineas ; a hundred and twenty is now the figure : and so with all the rest 
of the tribe. 
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