There was not much shipping, and what
there was seemed of the pleasure sort that parties go down to the
sea to be sick in. The long parade was filled at most hours with
the English who make the place their resort; whose bathing began
early in the morning and whose flirting continued far into the
night, with forenoon and afternoon dawdling and dozing on the
pebbles. At one end of the Terrace rose a prodigious headland,
whose slope was scaled over with broken slate, like some mammoth
heaving from the deep and showing an elephantine hide of bluish
gray. At the other end was the Amusement Pier, with the co-
educational college, which is part of the University of Wales,
and with divers hotels. Somewhat behind and beyond were the ruins
of one of those castles which the Normans planted with a mailed
fist at every vantage in Wales, as their sole means of holding
down the swarming, squirming, fighting little dark people of the
country. Even then they could not do it, for the Welsh, often
overrun, were never conquered, as they will tell you themselves
if you ask them.
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