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قراءة كتاب The House by the Church-Yard
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اللغة: English
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THE HOUSE
BY
THE CHURCH-YARD
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU
AUTHOR OF 'UNCLE SILAS' AND 'TORLOGH O'BRIEN'
Dublin:
JAMES DUFFY AND CO., Ltd. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
1904.
Printed by Edmund Burke & Co., 61 & 62 GREAT STRAND STREET, DUBLIN.
CONTENTS.
| A Prologue—being a dish of village chat | 1 | |
| I. | The rector's night-walk to his church | 9 |
| II. | The nameless coffin | 12 |
| III. | Mr. Mervyn in his inn | 15 |
| IV. | The Fair-green of Palmerstown | 18 |
| V. | How the Royal Artillery entertained some of the | |
| neighbours at dinner | 25 | |
| VI. | In which the minstrelsy proceeds | 32 |
| VII. | Showing how two gentlemen may misunderstand one another, | |
| without enabling the company to understand their quarrel | 35 | |
| VIII. | Relating how Doctor Toole and Captain Devereux went | |
| on a moonlight errand | 40 | |
| IX. | How a squire was found for the knight of the rueful | |
| countenance | 44 | |
| X. | The dead secret, showing how the fireworker proved to | |
| Puddock that Nutter had spied out the nakedness of the land | 48 | |
| XI. | Some talk about the haunted housebeing, as I suppose, | |
| only old woman's tales | 53 | |
| XII. | Some odd facts about the Tiled Housebeing an | |
| authentic narrative of the ghost of a hand | 57 | |
| XIII. | In which the rector visits the Tiled House, | |
| and Doctor Toole looks after the Brass Castle | 63 | |
| XIV. | Relating how Puddock purged O'Flaherty's heada | |
| chapter which, it is hoped, no genteel person will read | 66 | |
| XV. | Æsculapius to the rescue | 69 |
| XVI. | The ordeal by battle | 73 |
| XVII. | Lieutenant Puddock receives an invitation and a rap | |
| over the knuckles | 81 | |
| XVIII. | Relating how the gentlemen sat over their claret, | |
| and how Doctor Sturk saw a face | 86 | |
| XIX. | In which the gentlemen follow the ladies | 91 |
| XX. | In which Mr. Dangerfield visits the church of Chapelizod, | |
| and Zekiel Irons goes a-fishing | 94 | |
| XXI. | Relating among other things how Doctor Toole walked | |
| up to the Tiled House, and of his pleasant discourse with | ||
| Mr. Mervyn | 100 | |
| XXII. | Telling how Mr. Mervyn |