Penelope's Irish Experiences

Penelope's Irish Experiences

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Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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The trio of clever girls who rambled over Scotland cross the border to the Emerald Isle, and again they sharpen their wits against new conditions, and revel in the land of laughter and wit.

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I am railing at my husband for all this, but I love him for it just the same, and it shows why the table is laid for three.

"Salemina," I said, extending my slipper toe to the glowing peat, which by extraordinary effort had been brought up from the hotel kitchen, as a bit of local colour, "it is ridiculous that we three women should be in Ireland together; it's the sort of thing that happens in a book, and of which we say that it could never occur in real life. Three persons do not spend successive seasons in England, Scotland and Ireland unless they are writing an Itinerary of the British Isles. The situation is possible, certainly, but it isn't simple, or natural, or probable. We are behaving precisely like characters in fiction, who, having been popular in the first volume, are exploited again and again until their popularity wanes. We are like the Trotty books or the Elsie Dinmore series. England was our first volume, Scotland our second, and here we are, if you please, about to live a t

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The trio of Penelope (now married), Francesca (engaged) and their older friend, Salemina, are once again traveling in the British Isles, this time in Ireland. It's not really successful as either a travelogue or a novel. The travel is sketchier than in the previous volumes on England and Scotland, and the romantic element — a reunion between Salemina and a long lost swain — takes place so much offstage that it adds little interest.