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Kitty O'Shea. Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MY EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. VISITORS AT RIVENHALL
CHAPTER III. MY FATHER'S DEATH AND MY MARRIAGE
CHAPTER IV. A DAY ON THE DOWNS
CHAPTER V. MORE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER VI. CAPTAIN O'SHEA ENTERS POLITICAL LIFE
CHAPTER VII. MR. PARNELL AND THE IRISH PARTY
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST MEETING WITH MR. PARNELL
CHAPTER IX. AT ELTHAM
CHAPTER X. THE LAND LEAGUE TRIALS
CHAPTER XI. PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER XII. HOBBIES AND A CHALLENGE
CHAPTER XIII. ASTRONOMY, "SEDITION," AND ARREST
CHAPTER XIV. KILMAINHAM DAYS
CHAPTER XV. MORE KILMAINHAM LETTERS
CHAPTER XVI. THE "KILMAINHAM TREATY"
CHAPTER XVII. THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERS AND AFTER
CHAPTER XVIII. ENVOY TO GLADSTONE
CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST HOME RULE BILL
CHAPTER XX. MR. PARNELL IN DANGER—FOUNDING OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHAPTER XXI. A WINTER OF MEMORIES
CHAPTER XXII. HORSES AND DOGS
CHAPTER XXIII. SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
CHAPTER XXIV. LONDON REMEMBRANCES
CHAPTER XXV. THE PARNELL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXVI. BRIGHTON HAUNTS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE DIVORCE CASE [1]
CHAPTER XXVIII. A KING AT BAY
CHAPTER XXIX. PARNELL AS I KNEW HIM
CHAPTER XXX. MARRIAGE, ILLNESS AND DEATH
INDEX
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Kitty O'Shea
His Love Story and Political Life
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Frank had consumption, and very badly; he suffered intensely, and I think I have never longed for the presence of a doctor with more anxiety than I did for Dr. Gimson's at that time. My perpetual fear was that the effect of the opiate he gave to deaden poor Frank's pain would wear off before he came again. When it grew dusk Frank desired me to put candles in every window, that he might not see the shadows—the terrifying shadows which delirium and continual doses of morphia never fail to produce.
Frank's very dear friend, Captain Hawley Smart, the novelist, came to Rivenhall in the hope that he could cheer poor Frank's last hours; but he was too ill to know or care, and Hawley Smart could, like the rest of us, only await the pitying release of death.
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