Mononia Author:Justin McCarthy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Small, Maynard Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may ... more »be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III "love's Young Dream" THE entrance of Phil Colston brought Mononia's thoughts away in a moment from her efforts at Petrarch and the brooding home troubles which were distracting these efforts. A light, partly of pleasure, partly of surprise, came into her eyes at the sudden announcement of his presence, -- a presence which was with her almost before she had time to give order for his admission. Phil Colston was a tall young man of about three-and-twenty years of age. He was slender and sinewy and like Maurice Desmond had a good deal of the boating man in his appearance and in his movements. His hair, eyes, and complexion were dark. A stranger might readily have taken him for an Italian or a Spaniard; and, indeed, his family came from those western regions of Ireland on which long generations of Spanish settlement and of intermarriage between Irish and Spaniards have left their deep imprint to this day. Phil's deeply dark eyes beamed with enthusiasm as he held out his hand to the welcoming and yet hesitating Mononia. " I have heard it all," he said in a tone of hardly subdued delight. " I have heard it all, Mononia. I have just been talking with Maurice, and he has told me everything. I am so glad." "Told you everything, Phil?" with a look of some wonder at his enthusiasm. " Then you just tell it all over again to me, for as yet I don't quite know what it is all about. But, first, please, take the chair, and settle yourself...« less