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Title: The House by the Church-Yard

Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Release Date: February 15, 2006 [eBook #17769]

Language: English

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THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD

by

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.

CHAP. Page

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 house--being, as I suppose,
only old woman's tales