Identifier: luttrellarran00leve (find matches)
Title: Luttrell of Arran
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872 Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ll the interest the messenger had iu /lis eyes camefrom the fact that he came from //er, that lie had seen /ler, and wasnear her when she wrote. This island—I only know it by the map, said Sir Withni,trying to talk in an easy, uucouccrued strain— its very poor, Ibelieve ? You might say wretched, and be nearer the mark. Is it celebrated for sport ? Is the shootmg or the fishing thegreat attraction ? Theres no shooting, nor any fishing but the deep sea fishery;and more men are lost in that than there are fortunes made of it. And what could have induced Mr. Luttrell to take up his abodein sucli a spot ? The same thing that sends men oil to America, and Australia,and New Zcalaud; tlic same tiling that makes a man cat black bread when he cant get white ; the same thing that But whats tlie use of telling you about the symptoms, when you never so muchas heard of the disease r Miss Luttrells life must be a very lonely one, said Sir Within,with every effort to talk in a tone of unconcern.
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mm^i^f i I MK. okokke abroad. 333 Tis the wonder of wouders how she bears it. 1 asked thewomau that lives with them how she passed her time and what shedid, and she said, She takes up everything for a week or ten days,and goes at it as if her life depended on it. One time it wasgathering plants, and sprigs of heath, and moss, and the like—evenseaweed shed bring home—going after them up crags and cliifs thata goat couldnt climb. Then shed give up that and take to garden-ing, and work all day long; then it was making fishing-nets; theuit was keeping a school, and teaching the fishermens children; sheeven tried to teach them to sing, till a sudden thought struck herthat they ought to have a lifeboat on the island, and she sat towriting to all the people that she could think of to send a plan ofone, meaning, I suppose —here he grinned— to make it herselfafterwards. Sir Within listened eagerly to all this, and then asked: And her uncle—does he aid her in these projects ? He! Its

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