Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
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Lever Charles James. Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
CHAPTER I. THE “ATTWOOD.”
CHAPTER II. THE BOAR’S HEAD AT ROTTERDAM
CHAPTER III. VAN HOOGENDORP’S TALE
CHAPTER IV. MEMS. AND MORALIZINGS
CHAPTER V. ANTWERP – “THE FISCHER’S HAUS.”
CHAPTER VI. MR. O’KELLY’S TALE
CHAPTER VII. O’KELLY’S TALE. – CONTINUED
CHAPTER VIII. MR. O’KELLY’S TALE. – CONCLUDED
CHAPTER IX. TABLE-TRAITS
CHAPTER X. A DILEMMA
CHAPTER XI, A FRAGMENT OF FOREST LIFE
CHAPTER XII. CHATEAU LIFE
CHAPTER XIII. THE ABBE’S STORY
CHAPTER XIV. THE CHASE
CHAPTER XV. A NARROW ESCAPE
CHAPTER XVI. A MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVII. THE BORE – A SOLDIER OF THE EMPIRE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RETREAT FROM LEIPSIC
CHAPTER XIX. THE TOP OF A DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XX. BONN AND STUDENT LIFE
CHAPTER XXI. THE STUDENT
CHAPTER XXII. SPAS AND GRAND DUKEDOMS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TRAVELLING PARTY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GAMBLING-ROOM
CHAPTER XXV. A WATERING-PLACE DOCTOR
CHAPTER XXVI. SIR HARRY WYCHERLEY
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RECOVERY HOUSE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ‘DREAM OF DEATH’
CHAPTER XXIX. THE STRANGE GUEST
CHAPTER XXX. THE PARK
CHAPTER XXXI. THE BARON’S STORY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE WARTBURG AND EISENACH
CHAPTER XXXIII. “ERFURT”
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HERR. DIRECTOR KLUG
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Old Woodcock says, that if Providence had not made him a Justice of the Peace, he’d have been a vagabond himself. No such kind interference prevailed in my case. I was a vagabond from my cradle. I never could be sent to school, alone, like other children – they always had to see me there safe, and fetch me back again. The rambling bump monopolized my whole head. I’m sure my god-father must have been the wandering Jew, or a king’s messenger. Here I am again, en route, and sorely puzzled to know whither? There’s the fellow for my trunk.
“What packet, sir?”
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There was a long pause after this; I perceived that I had taken a wrong path to lead him into conversation, and he was too deeply overcome with indignation to speak. During this time, however, his anger took a thirsty form, and he swigged away at the schiedam most manfully.
The effect of his libations became at last evident, his great green stagnant eyes flashed and flared, his wide nostrils swelled and contracted, and his breathing became short and thick, like the convulsive sobs of a steam-engine when they open and shut the valves alternately; I watched these indications for some time, wondering what they might portend, when at length he withdrew his pipe from his mouth, and with such a tone of voice as he might have used, if confessing a bloody and atrocious murder, he said —
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