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Title: My New Curate

Author: P.A. Sheehan

Release Date: January 6, 2007 [EBook #20295]

Language: English

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[Illustration: So there they were at last, the dream of half a life
time. (p. 475.)]

MY NEW CURATE

A STORY

_Gathered from the Stray Leaves of an Old Diary_

By the Rev. P. A. SHEEHAN, P. P.
DONERAILE (DIOCESE OF CLOYNE)

_Author of_ "Geoffrey Austin: Student," "The Triumph of Failure," &c.

BOSTON
MARLIER & COMPANY, Limited
1902

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Change 1

II. A Retrospect 14

III. A Night Call 23

IV. The Pantechnicon 34

V. A Slight Misunderstanding 48

VI. At the Station 61

VII. Scruples 74

VIII. Our Concert 83

IX. Severely Reprimanded 97

X. Over the Walnuts, and the ---- 113

XI. Beside the Singing River 129

XII. Church Improvements 140

XIII. "All Things to All Men" 154

XIV. First Fridays 170

XV. Holly and Ivy 187

XVI. Violent Contrasts 205

XVII. A Clerical Symposium 226

XVIII. The Kampaner Thal 241

XIX. Literary Attempts 255

XX. Madonna Mia 272

XXI. The Factory 297

XXII. The May Conference 316

XXIII. A Battle of Giants 332

XXIV. The Sermon 349

XXV. May Devotions