a Prescription. 422

XCVI.--About the Rightful Mrs. Nutter of the Mills, and How
Mr. Mervyn Received The News. 427

XCVII.--In Which Obediah Arrives. 436

XCVIII.--In Which Charles Archer Puts Himself Upon the Country. 441

XCIX.--The Story Ends. 452




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THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD.

A PROLOGUE--BEING A DISH OF VILLAGE CHAT.


We are going to talk, if you please, in the ensuing chapters, of what
was going on in Chapelizod about a hundred years ago. A hundred years,
to be sure, is a good while; but though fashions have changed, some old
phrases dropped out, and new ones come in; and snuff and hair-powder,
and sacques and solitaires quite passed away--yet men and women were men
and women all the same--as elderly fellows, like your humble servant,