Traits and Confidences
by Emily Lawless (9781150413049)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Methuen Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations 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: OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSASSINATION UPON A LANDSCAPE There are places in Ireland -- in many other parts of the world no doubt also, but one can only speak of what one knows best -- at sight of which one says to oneself instinctively, " Something must have happened here There must be some story about this place " In nine cases out of ten such impressions are the purest moonshine. Your highly suggestive-looking spot has no history, or none that any one has ever heard of, and it is some thoroughly matter-of-fact- looking place, or some place over which an air of delusive calm seems to brood, where the real tragedies or the real horrors have occurred. I remember a picnic once upon a time that was dreadfully marred by a forgetfulness of this fact. It was quite an impromptu picnic, and had been suddenly arranged by my hostess and myself, who had offered to go on ahead, and toget it ready before the rest of the party came up. To save ourselves trouble, as well as utilize a pony-carriage which carried our provisions, we had selected a spot close to the high-road, but then I must explain that this was in Donegal, and in Donegal high-roads are often exceedingly exclusive places, and this particular spot we had hit upon appeared to be all that the least sociable of picnic-makers could desire. A fern-covered bank at the back, cutting off any chance of cold wind; a level space in front upon which even wine-glasses might stand unsupported; a salmon stream tumbling and twinkling in bubbling yellow curves a little to the left; a long row of melancholy stern-faced mountains. Add to the...

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