Platonic Affections

Excerpt from Platonic Affections
For a hard-worked city man in want of a holiday, or for a world-weary man of fashion, you would imagine that few summer resorts could be more delightful than the tiny watering-place of Lifport, in North Devon. It is so very far removed from scenes of busy life, and from what, in common parlance, we call 'haunts of pleasure.' It is so clean and smokeless.
In the height of its season, Lifport has a population of possibly no less than five hundred souls. In winter-time you would be not at all below the mark if you divided that number by five. Though by common consent termed a watering-place, it is not quite on the sea, but on the broad estuary of a river.
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