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Chapter 3 Mr. Mervyn in His Inn

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ment and all the row of village windows were glittering merrily - the sparrows twittered their lively morning gossip among the thick ivy of the old church tower - here a

e Kitty Lane, with her bright young careful face and white basket, were calling at the doors of their customers with new laid eggs. Through half-opened hall doors you might see the powdered serva

ly, statuesque - and his large enthusiastic eyes, suggested a story and a secret - perhaps a horror. Most men, had they known all, would have wondered with good Doctor Walsingham, why, of all places in the world, he should have chosen the little t

ife, but lost in a sad and dreadful reverie, when in bounced little red-faced bustling Dr. Toole - the joke and the chuckle with which he had just requited the fat old

surgeon here; and Tom Larkin said, last night, it's because they only dabble and quack - and two of a trade, you know - ha! ha! ha! And what a night we had - dark as Erebus - pouring like pumps, by Jove. I'll remember it, I warrant you. Out on business - a medical man, you know, can't always choose - and near meeting a bad accident too. Anything in the paper, eh? ho! I see, Sir, haven't read it. Well, and what do you think - a queer night for the purpose, eh? you'll say - we had a funeral in the town last night, Sir - some one from Dublin. It was Tressel's men came out. The turnpike rogue - just round the corner there - one of the talkingest gossips in the town - and a confounded prying, tattling place it is, I can tell you - knows the driver; and Bob Martin, the sexton, you know - tells me there we

e. Dr. Toole paused for nearly a minute, as if ex

h, never caring for Mervyn'

their books and pencils, and scratch away like so many Scotchmen. Ha! ha! ha! If you draw, S

ans

thinking of placing him upon the lord lieutenant's staff. 'We've capital horses here, if you want to go on to Leixlip,' (where - this between ourselves and the reader - during the summer months Hi

ll have some ball practice on Palmerstown fair-green today. Sev

ery, a small man, very neatly got up, and with a decidedly Mile

Ha, doctor; how goes it?- anythi

ar. Here's Lady Moira's ball: fancy dresses - all Irish; no masks; a numerous appearance of the

e, and the general, and Devere

in an old light-coloured coat, wore a wig. By Jupiter, major, if I was in General Chattesworth's place, with two hundred strapping fellows at my orders, I'd get a commission from Government to clear that road. It's too bad, Sir, we can't go in and out of town, unless in a body, after night-fall, but at the r

versation, cards, backgammon, draughts, and an occasional song by Dr. Toole, who was a florid tenor, and used to give them, 'While gentlefolks strut in silver and satins,' or 'A maiden of late had a merry design,' or some other such ditty, with a recitation by plump little stage-stricken Ensign Puddock, who, in 'thpite of hith lithp,' gave rather spi

between the wooded slopes, which make the valley of the Liffey so pleasant and picturesque, until he reached the ferry, which cr

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Contents

A Prologue - Being a dish of village chat The Rector's Night-Walk to His Church Chapter 2 The Nameless Coffin Chapter 3 Mr. Mervyn in His Inn Chapter 4 The Fair-Green of Palmerstown Chapter 5 How the Royal Irish Artillery Entertained Some of t Chapter 6 In which the Minstrelsy Proceeds Chapter 7 Showing How Two Gentlemen May Misunderstand One Ano Chapter 8 Relating How Doctor Toole and Captain Devereux Went Chapter 9 How a Squire was Found for the Knight of the Rueful Chaptear 10 The Dead Secret, Showing How the Fireworker Prove
Chapter 11 Some Talk About the Haunted House - Being, as I
Chapter 12 Some Odd Facts About the Tiled House - Being an
Chapter 13 In which the Rector Visits the Tiled House, and Do
Chaptear 14 Relating How Puddock Purged O'flaherty's Head
Chaptear 15 Sculapius to the Rescue
Chapter 16 The Ordeal by Battle
Chapter 17 Lieutenant Puddock Receives an Invitation and a Ra
Chapter 18 Relating How the Gentlemen Sat Over Their Claret,
Chapter 19 In which the Gentlemen Follow the Ladies
Chapter 20 In which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chap
Chapter 21 Relating Among Other Things How Doctor Toole Walke
Chapter 22 Telling How Mr. Mervyn Fared at Belmont, and of a
Chapter 23 Which Concerns the Grand Dinner at the King's Ho
Chapter 24 In which Two Young Persons Understand One Another
Chaptear 25 In which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-Making is Ke
Chapter 26 Relating How the Band of the Royal Irish Artillery
Chapter 27 Concerning the Troubles and the Shapes that Began
Chapter 28 In which Mr. Irons Recounts Some Old Recollections
Chapter 29 Showing How Poor Mrs. Macnamara was Troubled and H
Chapter 30 Concerning a Certain Woman in Black
Chapter 31 Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmo
Chapter 32 Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Dever
Chapter 33 In which Captain Devereux's Fiddle Plays a Prelu
Chapter 34 In which Lilias Hears a Stave of an Old Song and T
Chaptear 35 In which Aunt Becky and Doctor Toole, in Full Blo
Chapter 36 Narrating How Miss Lilias Visited Belmont, and Saw
Chapter 37 Showing How Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed
Chapter 38 Dreams and Troubles, and a Dark Look-Out
Chapter 39 Telling How Lilias Walsingham Found Two Ladies Awa
Chapter 40 Of a Messenger from Chapelizod Vault who Waited in
Chaptear 41 In which the Rector Comes Home, and Lily Speaks H
Chapter 42 In which Dr. Sturk Tries this Way and that for a R
Chapter 43 Showing How Charles Nutter's Blow Descended, and
Chapter 44 Relating How, in the Watches of the Night, a Visio
Chapter 45 Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe'
Chapter 46 The Closet Scene, with the Part of Polonius Omitte
Chapter 47 In which Pale Hecate Visits the Mills, and Charles
Chapter 48 Swans on the Water
Chapter 49 Swans in the Water
Chapter 50 Treating of Some Confusion, in Consequence, in the
Chapter 51 How Charles Nutter's Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-Box
Chapter 52 Concerning a Rouleau of Guineas and the Crack of a
Chapter 53 Relating After what Fashion Dr. Sturk Came Home
Chapter 54 In which Miss Magnolia Macnamara and Dr. Toole, in
Chapter 55 In which Dr. Toole, in Full Costume, Stands Upon t
Chapter 56 Doctor Walsingham and the Chapelizod Christians Me
Chapter 57 In which Dr. Toole and Mr. Lowe Make a Visit at th
Chapter 58 In which One of Little Bopeep's Sheep Comes Home
Chapter 59 Telling How a Coach Drew up at the Elms, and Two F
Chapter 60 Being a Chapter of Hoops, Feathers, and Brilliants
Chapter 61 In which the Ghosts of a by-Gone Sin Keep Tryst
Chapter 62 Of a Solemn Resolution which Captain Devereux Regi
Chapter 63 In which a Liberty is Taken with Mr. Nutter's Na
Chapter 64 Being a Night Scene, in which Miss Gertrude Chatte
Chapter 65 Relating Some Awful News that Reached the Village,
Chapter 66 Of a Certain Tempest that Arose and Shook the Capt
Chapter 67 In which a Certain Troubled Spirit Walks
Chapter 68 How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole M
Chapter 69 Concerning a Second Hurricane that Raged in Captai
Chapter 70 In which an Unexpected Visitor is Seen. In the Ced
Chapter 71 In which Mr. Irons's Narrative Reaches Merton Mo
Chaptear 72 In which the Apparition of Mr. Irons is Swallowed
Chapter 73 Concerning a Certain Gentleman, with a Black Patch
Chapter 74 In which Doctor Toole, in His Boots, Visits Mr. Ga
Chapter 75 How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle,
Chapter 76 Relating How the Castle was Taken, and How Mistres
Chapter 77 In which Irish Melody Prevails
Chapter 78
Chapter 79 Showing How Little Lily's Life Began to Change i
Chapter 80
Chapter 81 In which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visitor, and M
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84 In which Christiana Goes Over; and Dan Loftus Come
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88 In which Mr. Moore the Barber Arrives, and the Med
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92 The Wher-Wolf
Chapter 93 In which Doctor Toole and Dirty Davy Confer in the
Chapter 94 What Doctor Sturk Brought to Mind, and All that Do
Chapter 95 In which Doctor Pell Declines a Fee, and Doctor St
Chapter 96 About the Rightful Mrs. Nutter of the Mills, and H
Chapter 97 In which Obediah Arrives
Chapter 98 In which Charles Archer Puts Himself Upon the Coun
Chapter 99 The Story Ends
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