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by Aunt Becky, Makes Answer
Chapter 65. Relating Some Awful News that Reached the Village, and How Dr. Walsingham Visited Captain Richard Devereux at His Lodgings
Chapter 66. Of a Certain Tempest that Arose and Shook the Captain’s Spoons and Tea-Cups; and How the Wind Suddenly Went Down
Chapter 67. In which a Certain Troubled Spirit Walks
Chapter 68. How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips in with the Nectar
Chapter 69. Concerning a Second Hurricane that Raged in Captain Devereux’s Drawing-Room, and Relating How Mrs. Irons was Attacked With a Sort of Choking in Her Bed
Chapter 70. In which an Unexpected Visitor is Seen. In the Cedar-Parlour of the Tiled House, and the Story of Mr. Beauclerc and the ‘Flower De Luce’ Begins to Be Unfolded
Chapter 71. In which Mr. Irons’s Narrative Reaches Merton Moor
Chapter 72. In which the Apparition of Mr. Irons is Swallowed in Darkness
Chapter 73. Concerning a Certain Gentleman, with a Black Patch Over His Eye, who Made Some Visits with a Lady, in Chapelizod and its Neighbourhood
Chapter 74. In which Doctor Toole, in His Boots, Visits Mr. Gamble, and Sees an Ugly Client of that Gentleman’s; and Something Crosses an Empty Room
Chapter 75. How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle, and There Read a Paragraph in an Old Newspaper
Chapter 76. Relating How the Castle was Taken, and How Mistress Moggy Took Heart of Grace
Chapter 77. In which Irish Melody Prevails
Chapter 78. In Which, While the Harmony Continues in Father Roach’s Front Parlour, a Few Discords are Introduced Elsewhere; and Doctor Toole Arrives in the Morning with a Marvellous Budget of News
Chapter 79. Showing How Little Lily’s Life Began to Change into a Retrospect; and How on a Sudden she Began to Feel Better
Chapter 80. In which Two Acquaintances Become, on a Sudden, Marvellously Friendly in the Church-Yard; and Mr. Dangerfield Smokes a Pipe in the Brass Castle, and Resolves that the Dumb Shall Speak
Chapter 81. In which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visitor, and Makes a Call
Chapter 82. IN WHICH MR. PAUL Dangerfield PAYS HIS RESPECTS AND COMPLIMENTS AT BELMONT; WHERE OTHER VISITORS ALSO PRESENT Themselves
Chapter 83. In which the Knight of the Silver Spectacles Makes the Acquaintance of the Sage ‘Black Dillon,’ and Confers with Him in His Retreat
Chapter 84. In which Christiana Goes Over; and Dan Loftus Comes Home
Chapter 85. In which Captain Devereux Hears the News; and Mr. Dangerfield Meets an Old Friend After Dinner
Chapter 86. In which Mr. Paul Dangerfield Mounts the Stairs of the House by the Church-Yard, and Makes Some Arrangements
Chapter 87. In which Two Comrades are Tete-A-Tete in Their Old Quarters, and Doctor Sturk’s Cue is Cut Off, and a Consultation Commences
Chapter 88. In which Mr. Moore the Barber Arrives, and the Medical Gentlemen Lock the Door
Chapter 89. In which a Certain Songster Treats the Company to a Dolorous Ballad Whereby Mr. Irons is Somewhat Moved
Chapter 90. Mr. Paul Dangerfield has Something on His Mind, and Captain Devereux Receives a Message
Chapter 91. Concerning Certain Documents which Reached Mr. Mervyn, and the Witches’ Revels at the Mills
Chapter 92. The Wher-Wolf
Chapter 93. In which Doctor Toole and Dirty Davy Confer in the Blue-Room
Chapter 94. What Doctor Sturk Brought to Mind, and All that Doctor Toole Heard at Mr. Luke Gamble’s
Chapter 95. In which Doctor Pell Declines a Fee, and Doctor Sturk a Prescription
Chapter 96. About the Rightful Mrs. Nutter of the Mills, and How Mr. Mervyn Received the News
Chapter 97. In which Obediah Arrives
Chapter 98. In which Charles Archer Puts Himself Upon the Country
Chapter 99. The Story Ends
A Prologue — Being a Dish of Village Chat
Table of Contents
We are going to talk, if you please, in the ensuing chapters, of what was going on in Chapelizod about a hundred years ago. A hundred years, to be sure, is a good while; but though fashions have changed, some old phrases dropped out, and new ones come in; and snuff and hair-powder, and sacques and solitaires quite passed away — yet men and women were men and women all the same — as elderly fellows, like your humble servant, who have seen and talked with rearward stragglers of that generation — now all and long marched off — can testify, if they will.
In those days Chapelizod was about the gayest and prettiest of the outpost villages in which old Dublin took a complacent pride. The poplars which stood, in military rows, here and there, just showed
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