island-eccentricity

Updated: May 29, 2025

Only, in the valley of Westring there was drill and target-practice and barrack-life routine, the Westring-eccentricity being associated with the millionaire, Hogarth, the island-eccentricity with the House of Beech: and in the popular mind Beech and Hogarth were two notions.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea