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The House by the Church-Yard

The Rector's Night-Walk to His Church

Word Count: 1599    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

it because, as I said, I write from memoranda, an awfully d

put out under the wet 'blanket of the night,' which impene

om one horizon to the other into one black dome of vapour, their slow but steady motion contrasting with the awful stillness of the air. There was a weight in the atmosphere, and a sort of undef

s - a dream that betokened some coming trouble - it might, to be sure, be ever so small -(it had once come with no worse result than Dr. Walsingham's dropping

essenger a good hour awaiting his answer; and, just at two o'clock, the same messenger returned with a second letter - but this time a note sufficed for reply. ''Twill seem ungracious,' said the doctor, knitting his brows over his closed folio in

enough - but it was the women's doing - who always, upon emergencies, took the doctor's wardrobe in hand. Old Sally, with her kind, mild, grave face, and gray locks, stood modestly behind in the hall; and pretty Lilias, his only child, gave him her parting kiss, and her last grand charge about his shoes and other exterior toggery, in the porch; and he patted her cheek with a little fond laugh, taking old John Tracy's, the butler's, arm. John carried a handsome horn-lante

rge-like. It was a quarter past ten, and no other sound of life or human neighbourhood was stirring. If secrecy were an object, it was well secured by the sable sky, and the steady torrent which rolled down with electric weight and perpendicularity, making all nature resound with one long hush - sh - sh - sh - sh - deluging th

incremation, and submit to an unprecedented death by drowning), there was no idle officer, or lounging waiter upon the threshold. Military and civilians were all snug in their quarters that night; and the inn, excep

tless hall doors towards the Salmon House, also dark; and so, sharp round the corner, and up to the church-yard gate, w

he edifice looked unpleasantly dim, and went off at the far end into total darkness. Zekiel Irons was a lean, reserved fellow, with a black wig and blue chin, and something shy and sinister in his phi

cost. Bob Martin thanked his reverence; the cold rheumatism in his hip was better.' Irons, the clerk, replied, 'he had brought two prayer-books.' Bob averred 'he could not be mistaken; the old lady was buried in the near-vault; though it was forty years before, he remembered it like last night. They changed her into her lead coffin in the vault - he and the undertaker together - her own servants would not put a hand to

ess - now emerging again, dim, nebulous, in the foggy light of the lanterns. When this clerical portrait came near, he was looking down, with gathered brows, upon the flags, moving his lips and nodding, as if counting them, as was his way. The doctor was thinking

curious.' This latter was a mistake of the doctor's, who, like other simple persons, was fond of regarding others as harmless repetitions of himself. 'And his sojourn will be,' he says, 'but a matter of weeks; and the doctors mind wandered b

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1 A Prologue - Being a dish of village chat2 The Rector's Night-Walk to His Church3 Chapter 2 The Nameless Coffin4 Chapter 3 Mr. Mervyn in His Inn5 Chapter 4 The Fair-Green of Palmerstown6 Chapter 5 How the Royal Irish Artillery Entertained Some of t7 Chapter 6 In which the Minstrelsy Proceeds8 Chapter 7 Showing How Two Gentlemen May Misunderstand One Ano9 Chapter 8 Relating How Doctor Toole and Captain Devereux Went10 Chapter 9 How a Squire was Found for the Knight of the Rueful11 Chaptear 10 The Dead Secret, Showing How the Fireworker Prove12 Chapter 11 Some Talk About the Haunted House - Being, as I 13 Chapter 12 Some Odd Facts About the Tiled House - Being an 14 Chapter 13 In which the Rector Visits the Tiled House, and Do15 Chaptear 14 Relating How Puddock Purged O'flaherty's Head16 Chaptear 15 Sculapius to the Rescue17 Chapter 16 The Ordeal by Battle18 Chapter 17 Lieutenant Puddock Receives an Invitation and a Ra19 Chapter 18 Relating How the Gentlemen Sat Over Their Claret, 20 Chapter 19 In which the Gentlemen Follow the Ladies21 Chapter 20 In which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chap22 Chapter 21 Relating Among Other Things How Doctor Toole Walke23 Chapter 22 Telling How Mr. Mervyn Fared at Belmont, and of a 24 Chapter 23 Which Concerns the Grand Dinner at the King's Ho25 Chapter 24 In which Two Young Persons Understand One Another 26 Chaptear 25 In which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-Making is Ke27 Chapter 26 Relating How the Band of the Royal Irish Artillery28 Chapter 27 Concerning the Troubles and the Shapes that Began 29 Chapter 28 In which Mr. Irons Recounts Some Old Recollections30 Chapter 29 Showing How Poor Mrs. Macnamara was Troubled and H31 Chapter 30 Concerning a Certain Woman in Black32 Chapter 31 Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmo33 Chapter 32 Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Dever34 Chapter 33 In which Captain Devereux's Fiddle Plays a Prelu35 Chapter 34 In which Lilias Hears a Stave of an Old Song and T36 Chaptear 35 In which Aunt Becky and Doctor Toole, in Full Blo37 Chapter 36 Narrating How Miss Lilias Visited Belmont, and Saw38 Chapter 37 Showing How Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed 39 Chapter 38 Dreams and Troubles, and a Dark Look-Out40 Chapter 39 Telling How Lilias Walsingham Found Two Ladies Awa41 Chapter 40 Of a Messenger from Chapelizod Vault who Waited in42 Chaptear 41 In which the Rector Comes Home, and Lily Speaks H43 Chapter 42 In which Dr. Sturk Tries this Way and that for a R44 Chapter 43 Showing How Charles Nutter's Blow Descended, and45 Chapter 44 Relating How, in the Watches of the Night, a Visio46 Chapter 45 Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe'47 Chapter 46 The Closet Scene, with the Part of Polonius Omitte48 Chapter 47 In which Pale Hecate Visits the Mills, and Charles49 Chapter 48 Swans on the Water50 Chapter 49 Swans in the Water51 Chapter 50 Treating of Some Confusion, in Consequence, in the52 Chapter 51 How Charles Nutter's Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-Box 53 Chapter 52 Concerning a Rouleau of Guineas and the Crack of a54 Chapter 53 Relating After what Fashion Dr. Sturk Came Home55 Chapter 54 In which Miss Magnolia Macnamara and Dr. Toole, in56 Chapter 55 In which Dr. Toole, in Full Costume, Stands Upon t57 Chapter 56 Doctor Walsingham and the Chapelizod Christians Me58 Chapter 57 In which Dr. Toole and Mr. Lowe Make a Visit at th59 Chapter 58 In which One of Little Bopeep's Sheep Comes Home60 Chapter 59 Telling How a Coach Drew up at the Elms, and Two F61 Chapter 60 Being a Chapter of Hoops, Feathers, and Brilliants62 Chapter 61 In which the Ghosts of a by-Gone Sin Keep Tryst63 Chapter 62 Of a Solemn Resolution which Captain Devereux Regi64 Chapter 63 In which a Liberty is Taken with Mr. Nutter's Na65 Chapter 64 Being a Night Scene, in which Miss Gertrude Chatte66 Chapter 65 Relating Some Awful News that Reached the Village,67 Chapter 66 Of a Certain Tempest that Arose and Shook the Capt68 Chapter 67 In which a Certain Troubled Spirit Walks69 Chapter 68 How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole M70 Chapter 69 Concerning a Second Hurricane that Raged in Captai71 Chapter 70 In which an Unexpected Visitor is Seen. In the Ced72 Chapter 71 In which Mr. Irons's Narrative Reaches Merton Mo73 Chaptear 72 In which the Apparition of Mr. Irons is Swallowed74 Chapter 73 Concerning a Certain Gentleman, with a Black Patch75 Chapter 74 In which Doctor Toole, in His Boots, Visits Mr. Ga76 Chapter 75 How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle, 77 Chapter 76 Relating How the Castle was Taken, and How Mistres78 Chapter 77 In which Irish Melody Prevails79 Chapter 7880 Chapter 79 Showing How Little Lily's Life Began to Change i81 Chapter 8082 Chapter 81 In which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visitor, and M83 Chapter 8284 Chapter 8385 Chapter 84 In which Christiana Goes Over; and Dan Loftus Come86 Chapter 8587 Chapter 8688 Chapter 8789 Chapter 88 In which Mr. Moore the Barber Arrives, and the Med90 Chapter 8991 Chapter 9092 Chapter 9193 Chapter 92 The Wher-Wolf94 Chapter 93 In which Doctor Toole and Dirty Davy Confer in the95 Chapter 94 What Doctor Sturk Brought to Mind, and All that Do96 Chapter 95 In which Doctor Pell Declines a Fee, and Doctor St97 Chapter 96 About the Rightful Mrs. Nutter of the Mills, and H98 Chapter 97 In which Obediah Arrives99 Chapter 98 In which Charles Archer Puts Himself Upon the Coun100 Chapter 99 The Story Ends