{"product_id":"2940012972378","title":"The Foolish Lovers","description":"1920\u003cbr\u003eTO MY MOTHER\u003cbr\u003ewho asked me to write a story without any \"Bad words\" in it;\u003cbr\u003eand\u003cbr\u003eTO MRS. J. O. HANNAY\u003cbr\u003ewho asked me to write a story without any \"Sex\" in it.\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST BOOK OF THE FOOLISH LOVERS\u003cbr\u003eWhy, 'tis an office of discovery, love!\u003cbr\u003e_The Merchant of Venice._\u003cbr\u003eLove unpaid does soon disband.\u003cbr\u003eANDREW MARVELL\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003eIf you were to say to an Ulster man, \"Who are the proudest people in\u003cbr\u003eIreland?\" he would first of all stare at you as if he had difficulty in\u003cbr\u003ebelieving that any intelligent person could ask a question with so\u003cbr\u003eobvious an answer, and then he would reply, \"Why, the Ulster people, of\u003cbr\u003ecourse!\" And if you were to say to a Ballyards man, \"Who are the\u003cbr\u003eproudest people in Ulster?\" he would reply ... if he deigned to reply\u003cbr\u003eat all ... \"A child would know that! The Ballyards people, of course!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult for anyone who is not a native of the town, to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand why the inhabitants of Ballyards should possess so great a\u003cbr\u003epride in their birthplace. It is not a large town ... it is not even\u003cbr\u003ethe largest town in the county ... nor has it any notable features to\u003cbr\u003edistinguish it from a dozen other towns of similar size in that part of\u003cbr\u003eIreland. Millreagh, although it is now a poor, scattered sort of place,\u003cbr\u003ewas once of great importance: for the mail-boats sailed from its\u003cbr\u003eharbor to Port Michael until the steamship owners agreed that Port\u003cbr\u003eMichael was too much exposed to the severities of rough weather, and\u003cbr\u003echose another harbor elsewhere. Millreagh mourns over its lost glory,\u003cbr\u003eattributable in no way to the fault of Millreagh, but entirely to the\u003cbr\u003einscrutable design of Providence which arranged that Port Michael, and\u003cbr\u003enot Kirkmull, should lie on the opposite side of the Irish Sea; and\u003cbr\u003eevery Sunday morning, after church, and sometimes on Sunday afternoon,\u003cbr\u003ethe people walk along the breakwater to the lighthouse and remind each\u003cbr\u003eother of the days when their town was of consequence. \"We spent a\u003cbr\u003ehundred and fifty thousand pounds on our harbor,\" they say to each\u003cbr\u003eother, \"and then the Scotch went and did the like of that!\"--the like\u003cbr\u003eof that being their stupidity in living in an exposed situation.","brand":"unique5stardeals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073633042672,"sku":"2940012972378","price":4.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012972378_p0.jpg?v=1763575187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012972378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}