His thick, heavy, languid, lustreless black hair fell down behind his ears on to his shoulders, in that musicianlike way that is so offensive to the normal Englishman.

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It is the island's greatest ceremony, well worth watching if you are there, and totally fascinating in its mad Manxness.

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