. The North Devon coast. WATERMOUTH CASTLE 8i of Ilfracombe, they are to be visited only by pay-ment. In every respect the best way to reachthem is by taking one of the rowing-boats that,with competitive boatmen, are always to be foundhere in summer. Watermouth Castle, lookinggrandly out from its sloping lawns upon the sea,should have a story. The ivy-clad, romantic-looking, turreted pile wears as genuine an air ofantiquity as Lee Abbey itself, but candour—. WIDEMOUTH BAY. we must all be candid when the local guide-booksare so explicit—obliges me to confess it was builtin 1826, when feudal cas
. The North Devon coast. WATERMOUTH CASTLE 8i of Ilfracombe, they are to be visited only by pay-ment. In every respect the best way to reachthem is by taking one of the rowing-boats that,with competitive boatmen, are always to be foundhere in summer. Watermouth Castle, lookinggrandly out from its sloping lawns upon the sea,should have a story. The ivy-clad, romantic-looking, turreted pile wears as genuine an air ofantiquity as Lee Abbey itself, but candour—. WIDEMOUTH BAY. we must all be candid when the local guide-booksare so explicit—obliges me to confess it was builtin 1826, when feudal castellans were things ofa remote past. But stay, there is something of a story belong-ing to Watermouth Castle, for it was here thatone of Miss Marie Corellis funny villains, the SirCharles Lascelles, Baronet, of The MightyAtom, stayed, as one of a house-party. You know II 82 THE NORTH DEVON COAST at once, on being introduced to him in those pages,that he is a bad Bart. We must not blame him forthat; the baronets of fiction are always bad : theycant help it; it has to be. Moreover, he drawls,and acknowledges his doosid habits of caprice :so it is at once perceived that he is bad after theancient formula of fifty years ago. Any modernwicked baronet would in the like circumstancesdescribe himself, in up-to-date style, as an erraticrotter. Which is the better phrase, I will notpretend to say. In between Widemouth Head and the suc-ceeding headland of Ril
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