The Bunsby Papers (second series): Irish Echoes

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John Brougham. The Bunsby Papers (second series): Irish Echoes

PREFACE

DAN DUFF'S WISH, AND WHAT CAME OF IT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

THE BLARNEY STONE

THE GOSPEL CHARM

THE TEST OF BLOOD

THE MORNING DREAM

THE FORTUNE-TELLER

THE FAIRY CIRCLE

O'BRYAN'S LUCK. A TALE OF NEW YORK

CHAPTER I. THE MERCHANT-PRINCE

CHAPTER II. THE MAN OF LABOR

CHAPTER III. THE BOARDING-HOUSE

CHAPTER IV. THE PIECE OF LUCK

CHAPTER V. HOME

CHAPTER VI. THE WILL

CHAPTER VII. MORNING THOUGHTS

CHAPTER VIII. RETRIBUTION

CHAPTER IX. SUNLIGHT

THE TIPPERARY VENUS

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A very snug, comfort-suggesting apartment is the parlor of Squire Bulworthy, the rich grazier, upon which you and I, friend reader, are about so unceremoniously to intrude ourselves.

If you will but look around you, you will see that all the appliances of home delectation, procurable in so insignificant a town as Ballinasquash, are here gathered together; that looking-glass is the pride of the domestic circle and the envy of the neighborhood; those easy-chairs look as though tired humanity might find instant relief from their ample plumpness; the side-board, with its brilliant array of flashing decanters and hospitable-looking glasses, not mean, tailor-souled, thimble-measure aggravators, but huge whisky-punch goblets and wines of capacious magnitude; then the carpet, kidderminster to a certainty, dazzling in the variety of its crimson and blue, and yellow, displaying apochryphal flowers and inexplicable flourishes, such as put to the blush the most profound efforts of unartistic nature.

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Bulworthy now roared louder than ever, vainly endeavoring to free his tortured hand from its strange imprisonment, and the more he roared, the more his tormentor grinned, and cut capers about the table.

"Oh, pull out them thunderin' spurs," cried he, in agony. "This is worse than all; mercy, mercy! Misther jockey, I beg your pardon for what I did; it was the drink; there's whisky in me."

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