The House by the Church-Yard
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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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Chapter 16 The Ordeal by Battle

The chronicles of the small-sword and pistol are pregnant with horrid and absurd illustrations of certain great moral facts. Let them pass. A duel, we all know, spirit of 'Punch and Judy'- a farce of murder. Sterne's gallant father expired, or near it, with the point of a small-sword sticking out two feet between his shoulders, all about a goose-pi

             
            

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