Shandon Bells - 3 Author:William Black Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Macmillan and Co. Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations ... more »and there may 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. GLIMMERINGS. He was soon to have an inkling of that, however. After having been some little time in this still, silent, and beautiful place, occupied mostly in taking long and solitary walks by sea and shore, he wrote as follows to Mary Chetwynd : -- " Boat of Garry. "dear Miss Chetwynd -- In the last letter I had from Hyde Park Gardens, your aunt seemed to think it quite enough if I remained here enjoying myself in idleness ; and the temptation to do that is sufficiently strong; for it is one of the most beautiful neighbourhoods I have ever seen, and the people are very friendly. I think I ought to remind you, however, that if you wish to let the house and shooting, it would be easier to do that now than later on ; and really itseems a pity to think of such a place remaining vacant. I am afraid a good many of the young birds were killed by the heavy rains in the early spring ; but in some cases there are second broods in the nests; and there will be plenty of hares. Every one says the winter-shooting is most excellent; though Mr. Chetwynd does not appear ever to have spent a winter here. Everything about the house, as I wrote to your aunt, seems well- managed ; the horses in excellent condition ; the dogs not so good, as far as I can judge (the tenant should bring a brace of thoroughly- trained setters with him), and the new boiler will be in the steam-yacht next week. As to the prettiness of the place, of...« less