O'Conors of Castle Conor

By: Trollope, Anthony

Excerptstanding in the world. Men there as I learnt afterwards, are sought for themselves quite as much as they are elsewhere; and though my groom's top-boots were neat, and my horse a very tidy animal, my entry into Ballyglass created no sensation whatever.In about four days after my arrival, when I was already infinitely disgusted with the little Pot-house in which I was forced to stay, and had made up my mind that the people in county Mayo were a churlish set, I sent my horse on to a meet of the fox-hounds, and followed after myself on an open car.No one but an erratic fox-hunter such as I am, --a fox-hunter, I mean, whose lot it has been to wander about from one pack of hounds to another, --can understand the melancholy feeling which a man has when he first intrudes himself, unknown by any one, among an entirely new set of sportsmen. When a stranger falls thus as it were out of the moon into a hunt, it is impossible that men should not stare at him and ask who he is. And it is so disagreeable to be st

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085RT3JQN
• ISBN13: 9798626629576
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"