129

XXIX.--Showing how poor Mrs. Macnamara was troubled and
haunted too, and opening a budget of gossip 132

XXX.--Concerning a certain woman in black 137

XXXI.--Being a short history of the great battle of Belmont that
lasted for so many days, wherein the belligerents showed
so much constancy and valour, and sometimes one side
and sometimes t'other was victorious 141

XXXII.--Narrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux
brewed a bowl of punch, and how they sang and discoursed
together 143

XXXIII.--In which Captain Devereux's fiddle plays a prelude to
'Over the hills and far away' 146

XXXIV.--In which Lilias hears a stave of an old song and
there is a leave-taking beside the river 148

XXXV.--In which Aunt Becky and Doctor Toole, in full blow,
with Dominick the footman, behind, visit Miss Lily at
the Elms 152

XXXVI.--Narrating how Miss Lilias visited Belmont, and saw a
strange cocked-hat in the shadow by the window 155

XXXVII.--Showing how some of the feuds in Chapelizod wared
fiercer, and others were solemnly condoned 158

XXXVIII.--Dreams and troubles, and a dark look-out 161

XXXIX.--Telling how Lilias Walsingham found two ladies awaiting
her arrival at the Elms 166

XL.--Of a messenger from Chapelizod vault who waited in the
Tiled House for Mr. Mervyn 168

XLI.--In which the rector comes home, and Lily speaks her
mind, and time glides on, and Aunt Rebecca calls at
the Elms 173

XLII.--In which Doctor Sturk tries this way and that for
a reprieve on the eve of execution 177

XLIII.--Showing how Charles Nutter's blow descended, and what
part the silver spectacles bore in the crisis 180

XLIV.--Relating how, in the watches of the night, a vision came
to Sturk, and his eyes were opened 184