I said I would go to look for him. I mounted the hill by a wandering bohireen resembling nothing so much as a series of bony elbows; a white-washed cottage presently confronted me, clinging, like a sea-anemone, to a rock. I knocked at the closed door, I tapped at a window held up by a great, speckled foreign shell, but without success. Climbing another elbow, I repeated the process at two successive houses, but without avail. All was as deserted as Pompeii, and, as at Pompeii, the live rock in the road was worn smooth by ...
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I said I would go to look for him. I mounted the hill by a wandering bohireen resembling nothing so much as a series of bony elbows; a white-washed cottage presently confronted me, clinging, like a sea-anemone, to a rock. I knocked at the closed door, I tapped at a window held up by a great, speckled foreign shell, but without success. Climbing another elbow, I repeated the process at two successive houses, but without avail. All was as deserted as Pompeii, and, as at Pompeii, the live rock in the road was worn smooth by feet and scarred with wheel tracks. An open doorway faced me; I stooped beneath its lintel and asked of seeming vacancy if there were "anyone inside." There was no reply. I advanced into a clean kitchen, with a well-swept earthen floor, and was suddenly aware of a human presence very close to me. A youngish woman, with a heavy mop of dark hair, and brown eyes staring at the opposite wall, was sitting at the end of a settle behind the door. Every bit of her was trembling. She looked past me as if I did not exist.
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Used-Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Reissue. Free end papers browned; scattered foxing throughout; binding tight; spine a little bumped at head & foot.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6.75"-7.75" tall; Gift quality first edition hardcover in taupe cloth covered boards with gilt title spine and Longmans' Colonial Edition imprinted in black at the foot of the backstrip. Three board tips are sharp, one lightly bumped, spine ends are bumped and it is lacking the dj. Endpapers age toned but there is no writing, tears, soil or faults within whatsoever. Includes 8 full page duo-tone plates by Miss Somerville. 312pp text is crisp and complete. In this third and final volume of stories about Major Sinclair Yeates, he encounters familiar friends-old Mr. Knox, Mr and Mrs Flurry Knox-and new-Major Apollo Riggs, the 'Comte de Pralines', the innumerable McRorys-whilst meeting fresh adventures out yachting, at a country auction, in London, and of course, in the hunting field.
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While the Somerville's books are entertaining - the real value is the story set within the social context of Ireland in the last years before the change from British government to Ireland as an independent Nation.
I studied Irish History at Trinity (Dublin) and these books were always held up as good insight into a culture and time that has all but vanished.
Whether your purpose is a good read or social context - it's work taking a look.
