CONTENTS
[ THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE ]
[ CHAPTER I. ] SOME CHARACTERS NEW TO THE KNIGHT AND THE READER
[ CHAPTER II. ] A TALE OF MR. DEMPSEY'S GRANDFATHER
[ CHAPTER III. ] SOME VISITORS AT GWYNNE ABBEY
[ CHAPTER IV. ] A SCENE AT THE ASSIZES
[ CHAPTER V. ] MR. HEFFERNAN'S COUNSELS
[ CHAPTER VI. ] AN UNLOOKED-FOR PROMOTION
[ CHAPTER VII. ] A PARTING INTERVIEW
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] THE FIRE
[ CHAPTER IX. ] BOARDING-HOUSE CRITICISM
[ CHAPTER X. ] DALY'S FAREWELL
[ CHAPTER XI. ] THE DUKE OF YORK'S LEVEE
[ CHAPTER XII. ] THE TWO SIDES OF A MEDAL
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] AN UNCEREMONIOUS VISIT
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] A TÊTE-À-TÊTE AND A LETTER
[ CHAPTER XV. ] A DINNER AT COM HEFFERNAN'S
[ CHAPTER XVI. ] PAUL DEMPSEY'S WALK
[ CHAPTER XVII. ] MR. ANTHONY NICKIE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ] A CONVIVIAL EVENING
[ CHAPTER XIX. ] MR. DEMPSEY BEHIND THE SCENE
[ CHAPTER XX. ] MR. HEFFERNAN OUT-MANOEUVRED
[ CHAPTER XXI. ] A BIT OF B Y-P L A Y
[ CHAPTER XXII. ] A GLANCE AT MRS. FUMBALLY'S
[ CHAPTER XXIII. ] THE COAST IN WINTER
[ CHAPTER XXIV. ] THE DOCTOR'S LAST DEVICE
[ CHAPTER XXV. ] A DARK CONSPIRACY
[ CHAPTER XXVI. ] THE LANDING AT ABOUKIR
[ CHAPTER XXVII. ] THE FRENCH RETREAT
[ CHAPTER XXVIII. ] TIDINGS OF THE WOUNDED
[ CHAPTER XXIX. ] THE DAWN OF CONVALESCENCE
[ CHAPTER XXX. ] A BOUDOIR
[ CHAPTER XXXI. ] A LESSON FOR EAVES-DROPPING
[ CHAPTER XXXII. ] A LESSON IN POLITICS
[ CHAPTER XXXIII. ] THE CHANCES OF TRAVEL
[ CHAPTER XXXIV. ] HOME
[ CHAPTER XXXV. ] AN AWKWARD DINNER-PARTY
[ CHAPTER XXXVI. ] AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL
[ CHAPTER XXXVII. ] THE LAST STRUGGLE
[ CHAPTER XXXVIII. ] CONCLUSION
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE
CHAPTER I. SOME CHARACTERS NEW TO THE KNIGHT AND THE READER
Soon after breakfast the following morning the Knight set out to pay his promised visit to Miss Daly, who had taken up her abode at a little village on the coast, about three miles distant. Had Darcy known that her removal thither had been in consequence of his own arrival at “The Corvy,” the fact would have greatly added to an embarrassment sufficiently great on other grounds. Of this, however, he was not aware; her brother Bagenal accounting for her not inhabiting “The Corvy” as being lonely and desolate, whereas the village of Ballintray was, after its fashion, a little watering-place much frequented in the season by visitors from Coleraine, and other towns still more inland.