[Penelope’s Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin]@TWC D-Link bookPenelope’s Irish Experiences CHAPTER VII 9/11
Address, Green Park, Miss Murphy's.
How's Derelict? FRANELOPE. It was absurd, of course, but an absurdity that can be achieved at the cost of eighteen-pence is well worth the money. Nobody but a Baedeker or a Murray could write an account of our doings the next two days.
Feeling that we might at any hour be recalled to Benella's bedside, we took a childlike pleasure in crowding as much as possible into the time.
This zeal was responsible for our leaving the Urbs Intacta, and pushing on to pass the night in something smaller and more idyllic. I dissuaded Francesca from seeking a lodging in Ballybricken by informing her that it was the heart of the bacon industry, and the home of the best-known body of pig-buyers in Ireland; but her mind was fixed upon Kills and Ballies.
On asking our jarvey the meaning of Bally as a prefix, he answered reflectively: "I don't think there's annything onderhanded in the manin', melady; I think it means BALLY jist." The name of the place where we did go shall never be divulged, lest a curious public follow in our footsteps; and if perchance it have not our youth, vigour, and appetite for adventure, it might die there in the principal hotel, unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
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