{"product_id":"2940013788060","title":"PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES","description":"Contents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part First--Leinster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.      We emulate the Rollo books.\u003cbr\u003e     II.     Irish itineraries.\u003cbr\u003e     III.    We sight a derelict.\u003cbr\u003e     IV.     Enter Benella Dusenberry.\u003cbr\u003e     V.      The Wearing of the Green.\u003cbr\u003e     VI.     Dublin, then and now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Second--Munster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII.    A tour and a detour.\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.   Romance and reality.\u003cbr\u003e     IX.     The light of other days.\u003cbr\u003e     X.      The belles of Shandon.\u003cbr\u003e     XI.     'The rale thing.'\u003cbr\u003e     XII.    Life at Knockarney House.\u003cbr\u003e     XIII.   'O! the sound of the Kerry dancin'.'\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.    'Mrs. Mullarkey's iligant locks.'\u003cbr\u003e     XV.     Penelope weaves a web.\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.    Salemina has her chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Third--Ulster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII.   The glens of Antrim.\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII.  Limavady love-letters.\u003cbr\u003e     XIX.    'In ould Donegal.'\u003cbr\u003e     XX.     We evict a tenant.\u003cbr\u003e     XXI.    Lachrymae Hibernicae.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Fourth--Connaught.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII.   The weeping west.\u003cbr\u003e     XXIII.  Beams and motes.\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV.   Humours of the road.\u003cbr\u003e     XXV.    The wee folk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Fifth--Royal Meath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXVI.   Ireland's gold.\u003cbr\u003e     XXVII.  The three chatelaines of Devorgilla.\u003cbr\u003e     XXVIII. Round towers and reflections.\u003cbr\u003e     XXIX.   Aunt David's garden.\u003cbr\u003e     XXX.    The quest of the fair strangers.\u003cbr\u003e     XXXI.   Good-bye, dark Rosaleen!\u003cbr\u003e     XXXII.  'As the sunflower turns.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart First--Leinster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. We emulate the Rollo books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     'Sure a terrible time I was out o' the way,\u003cbr\u003e        Over the sea, over the sea,\u003cbr\u003e      Till I come to Ireland one sunny day,--\u003cbr\u003e        Betther for me, betther for me:\u003cbr\u003e      The first time me fut got the feel o' the ground\u003cbr\u003e        I was strollin' along in an Irish city\u003cbr\u003e      That hasn't its aquil the world around\u003cbr\u003e        For the air that is sweet an' the girls that are pretty.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                              --Moira O'Neill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                           Dublin, O'Carolan's Private Hotel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the most absurd thing in the world that Salemina, Francesca, and I\u003cbr\u003eshould be in Ireland together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat any three spinsters should be fellow-travellers is not in itself\u003cbr\u003eextraordinary, and so our former journeyings in England and Scotland\u003cbr\u003ecould hardly be described as eccentric in any way; but now that I am\u003cbr\u003ea matron and Francesca is shortly to be married, it is odd, to say the\u003cbr\u003eleast, to see us cosily ensconced in a private sitting-room of a Dublin\u003cbr\u003ehotel, the table laid for three, and not a vestige of a man anywhere to\u003cbr\u003ebe seen. Where, one might ask, if he knew the antecedent circumstances,\u003cbr\u003eare Miss Hamilton's American spouse and Miss Monroe's Scottish lover?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesca had passed most of the winter in Scotland. Her indulgent\u003cbr\u003eparent had given his consent to her marriage with a Scotsman, but\u003cbr\u003einsisted that she take a year to make up her mind as to which particular\u003cbr\u003eone. Memories of her past flirtations, divagations, plans for a life of\u003cbr\u003esingle blessedness, all conspired to make him incredulous, and the loyal\u003cbr\u003eSalemina, feeling some responsibility in the matter, had elected to\u003cbr\u003eremain by Francesca's side during the time when her affections were\u003cbr\u003esupposed to be crystallising into some permanent form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was natural enough that my husband and I should spend the first\u003cbr\u003esummer of our married life abroad, for we had been accustomed to do this\u003cbr\u003ebefore we met, a period that we always allude to as the Dark Ages; but\u003cbr\u003eno sooner had we arrived in Edinburgh, and no sooner had my husband\u003cbr\u003epersuaded our two friends to join us in a long, delicious Irish holiday,\u003cbr\u003ethan he was compelled to return to America for a month or so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think you must number among your acquaintances such a man as Mr.\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Beresford, whose wife I have the honour to be. Physically the\u003cbr\u003etype is vigorous, or has the appearance and gives the impression of\u003cbr\u003ebeing vigorous, because it has never the time to be otherwise, since\u003cbr\u003eit is always engaged in nursing its ailing or decrepit relatives.\u003cbr\u003eIntellectually it is full of vitality; any mind grows when it is\u003cbr\u003eexercised, and the brain that has to settle all its own affairs and all\u003cbr\u003ethe affairs of its friends and acquaintances could never lack energy.\u003cbr\u003eSpiritually it is almost too good for earth, and any woman who lives in\u003cbr\u003ethe house with it has moments of despondency and self-chastisement,\u003cbr\u003ein which she fears that heaven may prove all too small to contain the\u003cbr\u003eperfect being and its unregenerate family as well.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152787194096,"sku":"2940013788060","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013788060_p0.jpg?v=1763590288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013788060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}