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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI Mona, long hid from tliose who roam the main. Collins. The Isle of Man, in the middle of the 17th century, was very different, as a place of residence, from what it is now. Men had not then discovered its merit as a place of occasional refuge from the storms of life, and the society to be there met with was of a very uniform tenor. There were no smart fellows, whom fortune had tumbled from the seat of their barouches, no plucked pigeons or winged rooks, no disappointed speculators, no ruined miners?in short, Tio one worth talking to. The society of the island was limited to the natives themselves, and a few merchants, who lived by contraband trade. The amusements were rare and monotonous, and the mercurial young earl was soon heartily tried of his dominions. The islanders also, become too wise for happiness, had lost relish for the harmless and somewhat childish sports in which their simple ancestors had indulged themselves. May was no longer ushered in by the imaginary contest between the queen of retiring winter and advancing spring; the listeners no longer sympathized with the lively music of the followers of the one or the discordant Bounds with which the other asserted a more noisy claim to attention. Christmas, too, closed, and the steeples no longer jangled forth a dissonant peal. The wren, to seek for which used to be the sport dedicated to the holytidc, was left un- pursued and unslain. Party spirit had come among these simple people, and destroyed their good-humor, while it left them their ignorance. Even the races, a sport generally interesting to people of all ranks, were no longer performed, because they were no longer attractive. The gentlemen were divided by feuds hitherto unknown, and each seemed to hold it scorn to be pleased with the same di...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217531689
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 388
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217531687
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 567 gr


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