William Hamilton Maxwell (30 June 1792 in Newry, County Down, Ireland – 29 December 1850 in Musselburgh, Scotland) was an Irish novelist. (wikipedia)
Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.
The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
