Haunted Major
Robert Marshall

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ISBN: 978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]73015
Ile stron: 208
Okladka: Hardcover
Rok wydania: 1973-07
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV ST. MAGNUS I LEFT London on August 6th, travelling by night to Edinburgh, and leaving the latter city at 9 a.m. on the 7th, reached St. Magnus a few minutes before noon. I had been recommended to try the Metropole Hotel, and accordingly took up my quarters there. It is quite near the St. Magnus Golf Club (for which I was put up at once as a temporary member), and is equally convenient to the links. Lord and Lady Lowchester were in their house, a stone's-throw from the hotel, and amongst their guests were Mr. Lindsay and Mrs. Gunter. St. Magnus, as the golfing world knows, is situated on the east coast of Scotland, and is second only in importance as a golfing centre to St. Andrews, which, indeed, it closely resembles. It is a grim, grey old town, standing on bleak, precipitous cliffs that court every passing huirricane, and possessed in addition of a respectable perennial gale of its own. It is always blowing there. Indeed, I think a fair description of normal weather at St. Magnus would be "Wind with gales." The ancient town boasts many ruins of once noble buildings. Cathedrals, castles, monasteries, colleges, and priories, that formed strongholds of Roman Catholicism before the Reformation, are now outlined only by picturesque and crumbling walls, held in a green embrace by the ever- sympathetic ivy, and preserved mainly to please the antiquarian or artistic eye. And many the tales that are told of the ghostly occupants of these dead strongholds. The hotel was tolerably comfortable, although under any conditions hotel life is, to me, a hateful business. The constant traversing of passages that lead chiefly to other people's rooms ; the garrulous noisiness of the guests, the forced yet blase alacrity of the waiters, the commercial suavity and professional ge...

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