NOTE.
"The Cock and Anchor: a Chronicle of Old Dublin City," was first published in Dublin in three volumes in 1845, with the joint imprints of William Curry, Junior, & Co., Dublin; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London; and Fraser & Co., Edinburgh. There is no author's name on the title-page of the original edition. The work has not since been reprinted under the title of "The Cock and Anchor;" but some years after its first appearance my father made several alterations (most of which are adhered to in the present edition) in the story, and it was re-issued in the Select Library of Fiction under the title of "Morley Court."
The novel has been out of print for a long period, and I have decided to republish it now under its original and proper title. I have made no changes in such dates as are mentioned here and there in the course of the narrative, but the reader should bear in mind that this "Chronicle of Old Dublin City" was written fifty years ago.
Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu.
London, July, 1895.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I.— | The "Cock and Anchor" | [1] |
| II.— | A Bed in the "Cock and Anchor" | [6] |
| III.— | The Little Man | [10] |
| IV.— | A Scarlet Hood | [14] |
| V.— | O'Connor's Moonlight Walk | [23] |
| VI.— | The Soldier | [28] |
| VII.— | Three Grim Figures | [36] |
| VIII.— | The Warning | [40] |
| IX.— | The "Bleeding Horse" | [44] |
| X.— | The Master of Morley Court | [51] |
| XI.— | The Old Beech Tree Walk | [62] |
| XII.— | The Appointed Hour | [72] |
| XIII.— | The Interview | [75] |
| XIV.— | About a certain Garden and a Damsel | [83] |
| XV.— | The Traitor | [88] |
| XVI.— | Signor Parucci Alone | [92] |
| XVII.— | Dublin Castle by Night | [99] |
| XVIII.— | The Two Cousins | [106] |
| XIX.— | The Theatre | [110] |
| XX.— | The Lodging | [116] |
| XXI.— | Who appeared to Mary Ashwoode | [122] |
| XXII.— | The Spinet | [125] |
| XXIII.— | The Dark Room | [131] |
| XXIV.— | A Critic | [135] |
| XXV.— | The Combat and its Issue | [140] |
| XXVI.— | The Hell | [143] |
| XXVII.— | The Departure of the Peer | [151] |
| XXVIII.— | The Thunder-storm | [154] |
| XXIX.— | The Crones | [157] |
| XXX.— | Sky-copper Court | [163] |
| XXXI.— | The Usurer and the Oaken Box | [168] |
| XXXII.— | The Diabolic Whisper | [171] |
| XXXIII.— | How Sir Henry Ashwoode Played and Plotted | [174] |
| XXXIV.— | The "Old St. Columbkil" | [178] |
| XXXV.— | The Cousin and the Black Cabinet | [184] |
| XXXVI.— | Jewels, Plate, Horses, Dogs | [189] |
| XXXVII.— | The Reckoning | [191] |
| XXXVIII.— | Strange Guests at the Manor | [196] |
| XXXIX.— | The Bargain | [199] |
| XL.— | Dreams | [204] |
| XLI.— | A Certain Travelling Ecclesiastic | [208] |
| XLII.— | The Squires | [212] |
| XLIII.— | The Wild Wood | [217] |
| XLIV.— | The Doom | [222] |
| XLV.— | The Man in the Cloak | [226] |
| XLVI.— | The Double Conference | [231] |
| XLVII.— | The "Jolly Bowlers" | [236] |
| XLVIII.— | The Stained Ruffles | [241] |
| XLIX.— | Old Songs | [246] |
| L.— | The Press in the Wall | [252] |
| LI.— | Flora Guy | [259] |
| LII.— | Mary Ashwoode's Walk | [262] |
| LIII.— | The Double Farewell | [266] |
| LIV.— | The Two Chances | [273] |
| LV.— | The Fearful Visitant | [277] |
| LVI.— | Ebenezer Shycock | [280] |
| LVII.— | The Chaplain's Arrival at Morley Court | [284] |
| LVIII.— | The Signal | [290] |
| LIX.— | Haste and Peril | [296] |
| LX.— | The Untreasured Chamber | [299] |
| LXI.— | The Cart and the Straw | [302] |
| LXII.— | The Council | [308] |
| LXIII.— | Parting | [311] |
| LXIV.— | Mistress Martha and Black M'Guinness | [315] |
| LXV.— | The Conference | [319] |
| LXVI.— | The Bed-Chamber | [322] |
| LXVII.— | The Expulsion | [327] |
| LXVIII.— | The Fray | [332] |
| LXIX.— | The Bolted Window | [337] |
| LXX.— | The Baronet's Room | [341] |
| LXXI.— | The Farewell | [345] |
| LXXII.— | The Rope and the Riot | [349] |
| LXXIII.— | The Last Look | [354] |
| Conclusion | [357] |
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