Orme Angus

Love in Our Village Orme Angus

Introduction By Orme A gnus OUR village is exactly seven and a quarter miles from Suckton, and it is to Suckton we have to go when we want to take a railway journey or despatch a telegram; and my friends in town cannot understand how I manage to exist year after year in civilization and yet not of it It may be a pretty village, say they, and rural life may have its charms when taken in small doses and at proper intervals; but eccentric indeed must be the man with pretensions to culture who spends the early summer of his life in a remote village, where his only intellectual equals are the parson and the doctor, where comes not cab and bus, nor any evening papers, where gas and the simplest elements of sanitary science are unknown, and, in short, where life is lethaigy.
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