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him, fixed on by chance. He had two plans 

 in view for that particular Long Vacation, 

 and was terribly perplexed as to the question 

 which plan would best forward his interests. 

 At length he decided on writing to both the 

 tutors who were making up reading parties, and 

 putting the two letters in his pocket, he went 

 after dark to the Post Office, slipped in the 

 first letter upon which his hand fell when he 

 thrust it into his pocket, and only found out 

 on returning to his rooms that he had pledged 

 himself to visiting Mona's Isle, instead of the 

 English Lakes. Small accidents of this kind 

 bring about issues which fundamentally affect 

 the whole future of a man's and a woman's 

 life. 



" All the strangers who were temporarily 

 resident at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, made 

 a point, at that time, of hurrying to the pier 

 every day that the Liverpool boat arrived, 

 and amused themselves by watching, with 

 unsympathetic glee, the melancholy, washed- 

 out appearance of the hapless victims upon 

 whose faces sea-sickness had left its strongly- 

 impressed mark. In those remote days the 

 passage was twice as long as it is now, 



