Lever Charles James. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
PREFATORY EPISTLE
A WORD OF INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. ARRIVAL IN CORK — CIVIC FESTIVITIES — PRIVATE THEATRICALS
CHAPTER II. DETACHMENT DUTY — THE BURTON ARMS — CALLONBY
CHAPTER III. LIFE AT CALLONBY — LOVE-MAKING — MISS O'DOWD'S ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IV. BOTANICAL STUDIES — THE NATURAL SYSTEM PREFERABLE TO THE LINNEAN
CHAPTER V. PUZZLED — EXPLANATION — MAKES BAD WORSE — THE DEED
CHAPTER VI. THE PRIEST'S SUPPER — FATHER MALACHI AND THE COADJUTOR — MAJOR JONES AND THE ABBE
CHAPTER VII. THE LADY'S LETTER — PETER AND HIS ACQUAINTANCES — TOO LATE
CHAPTER VIII. CONGRATULATIONS — SICK LEAVE — HOW TO PASS THE BOARD
CHAPTER IX. THE ROAD — TRAVELLING ACQUAINTANCES — A PACKET ADVENTURE
CHAPTER X. UPSET — MIND — AND BODY
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Dear Public,
When first I set about recording the scenes which occupy these pages, I had no intention of continuing them, except in such stray and scattered fragments as the columns of a Magazine (FOOTNOTE: The Dublin University Magazine.) permit of; and when at length I discovered that some interest had attached not only to the adventures, but to their narrator, I would gladly have retired with my "little laurels" from a stage, on which, having only engaged to appear between the acts, I was destined to come forward as a principal character.
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"What the devil can all this mean?" I said, in a half-whisper, turning to the others. But there they stood, their handkerchiefs to their mouths, and evidently choking with suppressed laughter.
