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Von Händler/Antiquariat, momox Shop.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...as come but of long sojourning. Alas, that these shall find no Father Allan there to help them out as he helped me! Time was and he himself was a new-comer in the Isles, and glad to take counsel, Highland-born though he was, of one who had been there long before him. "There are two kinds of priests that don't get on well with the Islesmen," this one warned him; "those who make themselves too friendly, and those who don't make themselves friendly enough." And this is a hint for the layman, in search of song or sgeul or Celtic Gloom as may be. Of the two kinds, those who make themselves too friendly would, I fancy, be the more. These, then, might bear in mind to their own furtherance the traditions of the clan--how, in the old days, each one had his place. And these persist. Therefore, you shall not recommend yourself by letting yourself down, in speech, in manners, nor in dress; as who should consider his best were too good for his company. Anent this last, I had my lesson on my second Sunday, when I took the notion to go to the Mass bare-headed; having marked, on the Sunday before, that the women all went either so or in their shawls. "Eriskay is no place for hats," Father Allan had warned me at Dalibrog. However, I had come in one highly approved by the grey-eyed girl.... "It's such a respectable hat!" So covered, I received (as I have to be telling later) my first thrill from the music at the Mass. But the next Sunday morning, when I came down arrayed for church-going, I left up-stairs not only my hat, but, as I was soon to learn, in some sort my respectability as well. I felt the girl's eye on me while we waited in the kitchen for the bell to be done ringing-in, but she said nothing until I stood up. Then, "Yo... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-15, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, medimops [55410863], Berlin, Germany.
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