The House by the Church-Yard

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Contents

1. 01A Prologue—Being a Dish of Village Chat.
2. 02Chapter I.
3. 03The Rector's Night-Walk to His Church.
4. 04Chapter II.
5. 05The Nameless Coffin.
6. 06Chapter III.
7. 07Mr. Mervyn in His Inn.
8. 08Chapter IV.
9. 09The Fair-Green of Palmerstown.
10. 10Chapter V.
11. 11How the Royal Irish Artillery Entertained Some of the Neighbours at Dinner.
12. 12Chapter VI.
13. 13In Which the Minstrelsy Proceeds.
14. 14Chapter VII.
15. 15Showing How Two Gentlemen May Misunderstand One Another, Without Enabling the Company to Understand Their Quarrel.
16. 16Chapter VIII.
17. 17Relating How Doctor Toole and Captain Devereux Went on a Moonlight Errand.
18. 18Chapter IX.
19. 19How a Squire Was Found for the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
20. 20Chapter X.
21. 21The Dead Secret, Showing How the Fireworker Proved to Puddock That Nutter Had Spied Out the Nakedness of the Land.
22. 22Chapter XI.
23. 23Some Talk About the Haunted House—Being, as I Suppose, Only Old Woman's Tales.
24. 24Chapter XII.
25. 25Some Odd Facts About the Tiled House—Being an Authentic Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand.
26. 26Chapter XIII.
27. 27In Which the Rector Visits the Tiled House, and Doctor Toole Looks After the Brass Castle.
28. 28Chapter XIV.
29. 29Relating How Puddock Purged O'flaherty's Head—A Chapter Which, It Is Hoped, No Genteel Person Will Read.
30. 30Chapter XV.
31. 31Æsculapius to the Rescue.
32. 32Chapter XVI.
33. 33The Ordeal by Battle.
34. 34Chapter XVII.
35. 35Lieutenant Puddock Receives an Invitation and a Rap Over the Knuckles.
36. 36Chapter XVIII.
37. 37Relating How the Gentlemen Sat Over Their Claret, and How Dr. Sturk Saw a Face.
38. 38Chapter XIX.
39. 39In Which the Gentlemen Follow the Ladies.
40. 40Chapter XX.
41. 41In Which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chapelizod, and Zekiel Irons Goes a Fishing.
42. 42Chapter XXI.
43. 43Relating Among Other Things How Doctor Toole Walked Up to the Tiled House; and of His Pleasant Discourse with Mr. Mervyn.
44. 44Chapter XXII.
45. 45Telling How Mr. Mervyn Fared at Belmont, and of a Pleasant Little Dejeuner by the Margin of the Liffey.
46. 46Chapter XXIII.
47. 47Which Concerns the Grand Dinner at the King's House, and Who Were There, and Something of Their Talk, Reveries, Disputes, and General Jollity.
48. 48Chapter XXIV.
49. 49In Which Two Young Persons Understand One Another Better, Perhaps, Than Ever They Did Before, Without Saying So.
50. 50Chapter XXV.
51. 51In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-Making Is Kept Up by Candle-Light in the King's House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend.
52. 52Chapter XXVI.
53. 53Relating How the Band of the Royal Irish Artillery Played, and, While the Music Was Going on, How Variously Different People Were Moved.
54. 54Chapter XXVII.
55. 55Concerning the Troubles and the Shapes That Began to Gather About Doctor Sturk.
56. 56Chapter XXVIII.
57. 57In Which Mr. Irons Recounts Some Old Recollections About the Pied Horse and the Flower De Luce.
58. 58Chapter XXIX.
59. 59Showing How Poor Mrs. Macnamara Was Troubled and Haunted Too, and Opening a Budget of Gossip.
60. 60Chapter XXX.

About this edition

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Language

English

Era

Modern (c. 1800–1945)

Reading level

Intermediate: some philosophy helps

Formats

EPUB, PDF

Length

798 pages

This edition

Modern Philosophers