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The House by the Church-Yard

Chapter 7 Showing How Two Gentlemen May Misunderstand One Ano

Word Count: 2182    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

, in the sanctuary of his little parlour, was growling over the bones of a devilled-turkey, and about to soothe his fretted s

and shouted with ecstasy. O'Flaherty, who called for punch, and was unfortunately prone to grow melancholy and pugnacious over his liquor, was now in a saturnine vein of sentiment, discoursing of the charms of his peerless mistress, the Lady Ma

unction, the perfections of 'pig roast with the hair on:' and the two made a medley like 'The Roast Beef of Old England,' and 'The La

O'Flaherty pronounced it "Sorr,") wheth

particular retheipt,' answe

l, and at the same time winking to Puddock in token that O'Flaherty was just a little 'he

eration, and fixing his eyes steadily and rather unpleasantly upon Nutt

a head of hair as you could wish to see,' says Nut

to see?' repeated

r he was not easily put down; and they looked for several second

use, seemed to forget Nutter, an

eedy has the most beautiful dimpl

it, Sir?' enquired Devereux, simply, wi

h a very dangerous glare; 'and I'd like to see the man

s in these jolly days - by making timely little diversions, and it is wonderful, at a critical moment, what may be done by suddenly presenting a trifle; a pin

d-daughter, as who had a better right - I say, who had a better right?' and he smote his hand upon the table, and looked round inviting contradiction. 'My godmothers, in my baptism -

exclaimed Toole, with a

y's neeme, Sir?' demanded

s, extracting all the satire, and giving it quite a dignified and creditable character, for the Lieutenant Fireworker smelt so confoundedly of powder that the little doctor, though he never flinched when occ

, where she met him during the assize week; and, being a man of a weak and considerate nature, rather kind, and very courteous - although his smile was very near exploding into a laugh, as he gave the good lady snuff out of his own box - he was yet very much concerned and vexed, and asked his lady, when he went home, how she could have induced old Mrs. Macnamara to give that absurd name to her poor infant; whereat her ladyship, who had not thought of it since, was highly diverted; and being assured that the babe was actually christened, and past recovery Magnolia Macnamara, laughed very merrily, kissed her lord, who was shaking his head gravely, and then popped her hood on, kissed him again, and, laughing still, ran o

able to Magnolia's knight as possible, by not very scrupulous excisions and interpolations he wound

ay, lieutenant, to a W

nt nodded a

e one, Nutter

said N

not?' s

in praise of oysters,' answered

cratch a gray head, On a supper

- without instantaneously becoming the mark at which O'Flaherty directed his fiercest and most suspicious scowls? And now that I know the allusion which the

age can have in that. But I'll take leave to tell you, Sir, that a gentleman, whether he be a "youth" as you say, or aged, as you are, who endayv

bully. It is true, he had not the faintest notion why he was singled out for the young gentleman's impertinence; but neithe

r social - a - a - sociality, Sir; and the long and the short of it is, young gentleman, if you don't change you

al voices

able of anything. 'I believe, Sir,' he continued, addressing Nutter, who confronted him like a little game-cock, 'it is not usual f

ght on one side with an ugly expression, and

to suppose himself affronted in the manner, whatever it may be, most intolerable to his feelings, which request I now, Sir, teeke the libertee of preferring to you; and when you have engaged the services of a friend, I trust that Lieutenant Puddock, who lodges in the same house with me, will, in consideration of my being an officer of the same honourable co

w, and a pause of enquiry directed

ons, painful; but I- I can't ref

d silently and loftily round the room, and disappear

present I- a - that is, at the moment, I- a - don't quite see -[the fact is, he had not a notion what the deuce it wa

and official, and the representatives merely of a ceremonious etiquette and a minutely-regulated ordeal of battle. S

us smile, which implies no hilarity, but a kind of reaction in presence of the astounding and the slightly horrible. There was a silence; the gentlemen kept thei

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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