Lord Kilgobbin
‘Lord Kilgobbin’ appeared originally as a serial, (illustrated by Luke Fildes) in ‘The Cornhill Magazine,’ commencing in the issue for October 1870, and ending in the issue for March 1872. It was first published in book form in three volumes in 1872, with the following title-page:
Some one has said that almost all that Ireland possesses of picturesque beauty is to be found on, or in the immediate neighbourhood of, the seaboard; and if we except some brief patches of river scenery on the Nore and the Blackwater, and a part of Lough Erne, the assertion is not devoid of truth. The dreary expanse called the Bog of Allen, which occupies a tableland in the centre of the island, stretches away for miles—flat, sad-coloured, and monotonous, fissured in every direction by channels of dark-tinted water, in which the very fish take the same sad colour. This tract is almost without trace of habitation, save where, at distant intervals, utter destitution has raised a mud-hovel, undistinguishable from the hillocks of turf around it.
Fringing this broad waste, little patches of cultivation are to be seen: small potato-gardens, as they are called, or a few roods of oats, green even in the late autumn; but, strangely enough, with nothing to show where the humble tiller of the soil is living, nor, often, any visible road to these isolated spots of culture. Gradually, however—but very gradually—the prospect brightens. Fields with inclosures, and a cabin or two, are to be met with; a solitary tree, generally an ash, will be seen; some rude instrument of husbandry, or an ass-cart, will show that we are emerging from the region of complete destitution and approaching a land of at least struggling civilisation. At last, and by a transition that is not always easy to mark, the scene glides into those rich pasture-lands and well-tilled farms that form the wealth of the midland counties. Gentlemen’s seats and waving plantations succeed, and we are in a country of comfort and abundance.
Charles James Lever
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LORD KILGOBBIN
Charles Lever
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHAPTER I
KILGOBBIN CASTLE
CHAPTER II
THE PRINCE KOSTALERGI
CHAPTER III
THE CHUMS
CHAPTER IV
AT ‘TRINITY’
CHAPTER V
HOME LIFE AT THE CASTLE
CHAPTER VI
THE ‘BLUE GOAT’
CHAPTER VII
THE COUSINS
CHAPTER VIII
SHOWING HOW FRIENDS MAY DIFFER
CHAPTER IX
A DRIVE THROUGH A BOG
CHAPTER X
THE SEARCH FOR ARMS
CHAPTER XI
WHAT THE PAPERS SAID OF IT
CHAPTER XII
THE JOURNEY TO THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER XIII
A SICK-ROOM
CHAPTER XIV
AT DINNER
CHAPTER XV
IN THE GARDEN AT DUSK
CHAPTER XVI
THE TWO ‘KEARNEYS’
CHAPTER XVII
DICK’S REVERIE
CHAPTER XVIII
MATHEW KEARNEY’S ‘STUDY’
CHAPTER XIX
AN UNWELCOME VISIT
CHAPTER XX
A DOMESTIC DISCUSSION
CHAPTER XXI
A SMALL DINNER-PARTY
CHAPTER XXII
A CONFIDENTIAL TALK
CHAPTER XXIII
A HAPHAZARD VICEROY
CHAPTER XXIV
TWO FRIENDS AT BREAKFAST
CHAPTER XXV
ATLEE’S EMBARRASSMENTS
CHAPTER XXVI
DICK KEARNEY’S CHAMBERS
CHAPTER XXVII
A CRAFTY COUNSELLOR
CHAPTER XXVIII
‘ON THE LEADS’
CHAPTER XXIX
ON A VISIT AT KILGOBBIN
CHAPTER XXX
THE MOATE STATION
CHAPTER XXXI
HOW THE ‘GOATS’ REVOLTED
CHAPTER XXXII
AN UNLOOKED-FOR PLEASURE
CHAPTER XXXIII
PLMNUDDM CASTLE, NORTH WALES
CHAPTER XXXIV
AT TEA-TIME
CHAPTER XXXV
A DRIVE AT SUNRISE
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE EXCURSION
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXXVIII
O’SHEA’S BARN
CHAPTER XXXIX
AN EARLY GALLOP
CHAPTER XL
OLD MEMORIES
CHAPTER XLI
TWO FAMILIAR EPISTLES
CHAPTER XLII
AN EVENING IN THE DRAWING-ROOM
CHAPTER XLIII
SOME NIGHT-THOUGHTS
CHAPTER XLIV
THE HEAD CONSTABLE
CHAPTER XLV
SOME IRISHRIES
CHAPTER XLVI
SAGE ADVICE
CHAPTER XLVII
REPROOF
CHAPTER XLVIII
HOW MEN IN OFFICE MAKE LOVE
CHAPTER XLIX
A CUP OP TEA
CHAPTER L
CROSS-PURPOSES
CHAPTER LI
AWAKENINGS
CHAPTER LII
A CHANCE AGREEMENT
CHAPTER LIII
A SCRAPE
CHAPTER LIV
HOW IT BEFELL
CHAPTER LV
TWO J.P.‘S
CHAPTER LVI
BEFORE THE DOOR
CHAPTER LVII
A DOCTOR
CHAPTER LVIII
IN TURKEY
CHAPTER LIX
A LETTER-BAG
CHAPTER LX
A DEFEAT
CHAPTER LXI
A CHANGE OF FRONT
CHAPTER LXII
WITH A PASHA
CHAPTER LXIII
ATLEE ON HIS TRAVELS
CHAPTER LXIV
GREEK MEETS GREEK
CHAPTER LXV
IN TOWN
CHAPTER LXVI
ATLEE’S MESSAGE
CHAPTER LXVII
WALPOLE ALONE
CHAPTER LXVIII
THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE
CHAPTER LXIX
AT KILGOBBIN CASTLE
CHAPTER LXX
ATLEE’S RETURN
CHAPTER LXXI
THE DRIVE
CHAPTER LXXII
THE SAUNTER IN TOWN
CHAPTER LXXIII
A DARKENED KOOM
CHAPTER LXXIV
AN ANGRY COLLOQUY
CHAPTER LXXV
MATHEW KEARNEY’S REFLECTIONS
CHAPTER LXXVI
VERY CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION
CHAPTER LXXVII
TWO YOUNG LADIES ON MATRIMONY
CHAPTER LXXVIII
A MISERABLE MORNING
CHAPTER LXXIX
PLEASANT CONGRATULATIONS
CHAPTER LXXX
A NEW ARRIVAL
CHAPTER LXXXI
AN UNLOOKED-FOR CORRESPONDENT
CHAPTER LXXXII
THE BREAKFAST-ROOM
CHAPTER LXXXIII
THE GARDEN BY MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER LXXXIV
NEXT MORNING
CHAPTER LXXXV
THE END