Excerpt from The Word and the Will, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel

The world is slow to recognise excellence on a small scale, and the name of Natchett-on-Sea may touch an answering chord in but few breasts, yet it is a very picturesque little place, nevertheless, and is called (by those who have property in the neighbourhood, and would like to let it on building leases) "the Scarborough of the West." It is like Scarborough, but looked at through the wrong end of a telescope.

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