![]() ![]() So sweet and scriptural! There was melon at dessert that very evening." We walked up and down the whale, realizing the sensations of Jonah. How it all comes back-the bones, the bliss, the starry night, one is afraid to say how long ago, but that tall child tells such sad tales. Ah me! the days that are no more-just like a church aisle, only the arches got smaller toward the tail and began on the ground so there were no pillars. ![]() It was, of course, quite innocuous-dead, long dead, and may be so still for all I know. ![]() "A honeymoon inside a whale, Signora? Una balena?" the baroness asked, mystified. How happy we were inside that sweet whale!" ![]() "Ours," she said, "was in the Garden of England- that is, in one of them-the darling little Isle of Wight- inside a whale. There aren't many roles for whale skeletons in literature, but one appears in Maxwell Gray's 1913 novel Something Afar (published in the USA as The Desire of the Moth), where the author gets in a reference to her native Isle of Wight and a description (fancifully embroidered by Blanche, the protagonist's wife) of the celebrated whale skeleton at Blackgang Chine.Ĭomo was a favorite place for honeymooning, the baroness thought, commenting on the wastefulness of choosing the most beautiful spots for that class of travelers, who ought to be too happy to care where they went while Gino cynically hinted at a need of consolation in such cases, to the great indignation of Blanche, who held that a honeymoon could be spent with equal enjoyment in a balloon or a coal mine. ![]()
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