XLII. Lady Baldock Does Not Send a Card to Phineas Finn
XLIII. Promotion
XLIV. Phineas and His Friends
XLV. Miss Effingham's Four Lovers
XLVI. The Mousetrap
XLVII. Mr. Mildmay's Bill
XLVIII. "The Duke"
XLIX. The Duellists Meet
L. Again Successful
LI. Troubles at Loughlinter
LII. The First Blow
LIII. Showing How Phineas Bore the Blow
LIV. Consolation
LV. Lord Chiltern at Saulsby
LVI. What the People in Marylebone Thought
LVII. The Top Brick of the Chimney
LVIII. Rara Avis in Terris
LIX. The Earl's Wrath
LX. Madame Goesler's Politics
LXI. Another Duel
LXII. The Letter That Was Sent to Brighton
LXIII. Showing How the Duke Stood His Ground
LXIV. The Horns
LXV. The Cabinet Minister at Killaloe
LXVI. Victrix
LXVII. Job's Comforters
LXVIII. The Joint Attack
LXIX. The Temptress
LXX. The Prime Minister's House
LXXI. Comparing Notes
LXXII. Madame Goesler's Generosity
LXXIII. Amantium Irae
LXXIV. The Beginning of the End
LXXV. P. P. C.
LXXVI. Conclusion

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I

Phineas Finn Proposes to Stand for Loughshane

Dr. Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known in those
parts,--the confines, that is, of the counties Clare, Limerick,
Tipperary, and Galway,--as was the bishop himself who lived in the
same town, and was as much respected. Many said that the doctor was
the richer man of the two, and the practice of his profession was
extended over almost as wide a district. Indeed the bishop whom he
was privileged to attend, although a Roman Catholic, always spoke of
their dioceses being conterminate. It will therefore be understood
that Dr. Finn,--Malachi Finn was his full name,--had obtained a wide
reputation as a country practitioner in the west of Ireland. And he
was a man sufficiently well to do, though that boast made by his
friends, that he was as warm a man as the bishop, had but little
truth to support it. Bishops in Ireland, if they live at home, even
in these days, are very warm men; and Dr. Finn had not a penny in the
world for which he had not worked hard. He had, moreover, a costly
family, five daughters and one son, and, at the time of which we
are speaking, no provis