Elizabeth (host)
speaker
6,518 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Elizabeth (host)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Presently there was a continual tapping of these heavy drops upon the dead leaves, the road, and the travelers.
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The nearer boughs were beaded with the mist to the grayness of aged men, and the rusty red leaves of the beeches were hung with similar drops, like diamonds on auban hair.
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At the roadside hamlet called Roytown, just beyond this wood was the old inn Buckshead.
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It was about a mile and a half from Weatherbury, and in the meridian times of stagecoach travelling.
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Had been the place where many coaches changed and kept their relays of horses.
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All the old stabling was now pulled down, and little remained besides the habitable inn itself.
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Which, standing a little way back from the road, signified its existence to people far up and down the highway by a sign hanging from the horizontal bough of an elm on the opposite side of the way.
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Travellers, for the variety tourist, had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date.
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sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the sign board hanging thus,
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But that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.
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It was near this tree that the wagon was standing into which Gabriel Oak crept on his first journey to Wetherbury.
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But owing to the darkness, the sign and the inn had been unobserved.
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The manners of the inn were of the old established type.
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Indeed, in the minds of its frequenters they existed as unalterable formulae, e.g.
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Rap with the bottom of your pint for more liquor, for tobacco, shout and
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In calling for the girl in waiting, say Maid Ditto for the landlady old soul, etc etc
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It was a relief to Joseph's heart when the friendly signboard came in view, and stopping his horse immediately beneath it, he proceeded to fulfil an intention made a long time before.
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His spirits were oozing out of him quite.
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He turned the horse's head to the green bank and entered the hostel for a mug of ale.
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Going down into the kitchen of the inn, the floor of which was a step below the passage, which in its turn was a step below the road outside.
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