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Here is a fine castle the seat of the ancient family of the MacDonnels Earls of Antrim. Scarcely any thing in the world can be grander or more beautiful than the coast road all the way from Glenarm to the Giant's Causeway. It is altogether too fine to be described it should be painted, not written about. One of the grandest points in the scenery is the great promontory of Benmore, or Fairhead.
Or, if that hill were Benmore, and that long blue lake, which you see just winding towards yon mountainous country, were Loch Tay, or my own Loch an Ri, the tale would be better suited with scenery. However, let us sit down on this knoll; even Saddleback and Ulswater will suit what I have to say better than the English hedgerows, enclosures, and farmhouses.
Or, if that hill were Benmore, and that long blue lake, which you see just winding towards yon mountainous country, were Loch Tay, or my own Loch an Ri, the tale would be better suited with scenery. However, let us sit down on this knell; even Saddleback and Ullswater will suit what I have to say better than the English hedgerows, enclosures, and farm-houses.
If he found nothing in Pack's room.... but it is not nice to think of what would have happened in that case. Pack went to a dance at Benmore Benmore WAS Benmore in those days, and not an office and danced fifteen waltzes out of twenty-two with Miss Hollis.
Strickland's account of the agony he endured on wet nights, hearing the music and seeing the lights in "Benmore," with his toes tingling for a waltz and his head in a horse-blanket, is rather amusing. One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more, worth suppressing.
One evening there was a ball for the benefit of the county people, at which the Queen danced a quadrille with Lord Breadalbane; Prince Albert and the Duchess of Buccleugh being the vis-a-vis. On September 10th, a fine morning, the Queen left Taymouth. She was rowed up Loch Tay, past Ben Lawers with Benmore in the distance.
These scenes were still the same, as far as the hand of Nature was concerned: there stood the lofty Benmore, casting his sombre shades over the glassy surface of Lochba, as in the days of yore; there were also the same heath-covered hills and wooded dells, well stocked with sheep and cattle; but the human inhabitants of the woods and dells where were they? far distant from their much-loved native land in the wilds of America, or toiling for a miserable existence in the crowded cities of the Lowlands, a sad change!
Or, if that hill were Benmore, and that long blue lake, which you see just winding towards yon mountainous country, were Loch Tay, or my own Loch an Ri, the tale would be better suited with scenery. However, let us sit down on this knoll; even Saddleback and Ulswater will suit what I have to say better than the English hedgerows, enclosures, and farmhouses.
Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in "Benmore" porch by a policeman especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village or, worse still, when a young subaltern called him a pig for not making way quickly enough. But the life had its compensations.
You must know that, when I marched away my clan to join the Prince, I laid my injunctions on that worthy member of society to perform a certain piece of service, which done, he was to join me with all the force he could muster. Upon my honour, if I live to see the cairn of Benmore again, I shall be tempted to hang that fellow!
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