Excerpt from The Cruleans, Vol. 1 of 2: A Vacation IdyllSuch, at any rate, was the mood of the modern occu pants of Coerulea, - a kindly, sociable race, little given to solitary wanderings or other egoistic, self-inspective practices. Few of them, it may safely be affirmed, ran any risk of getting lost. Rather they clustered in closely-serried groups, - talked and laughed, - loved and quarrelled, - dined and danced - occupied themselves intensely with each other's affairs, and lived generally in the keenest and completest enjoyment of one another's company. Among the various shortcomings against which the successive Chaplains of Coerulea felt them selves called, from time to time, to warn their ¿ocks, no one had ever been unreasonable enough to include the sin of unsociability.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.