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 Iræ
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