Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent
By William Carleton
Length22h 27m
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Excerpt: "The town of Castle Cumber it is not our intention to describe at more length than simply to say, that it consists of two long streets, intersecting each other, and two or three lanes of cabins—many of them mud ones—that stretch out of it on each side at right angles. This street, and these straggling appendages, together with a Church, a Prison, a Court-house, a Catholic chapel, a few shops, and half a dozen public houses, present to the spectator all the features that are generally necessary for the description of that class of remote country towns of which we write. Indeed, with the exception of an ancient Stone Cross, that stands in the middle of the street, and a Fair green, as it is termed, or common, where its two half-yearly fairs are held, and which lies at the west end of it, there is little or nothing else to be added. The fair I particularly mention, because on the day on which the circumstances I am about to describe occurred, a fair was held in the town, and upon the green in question. The month was December—the day stormy and unpropitious. There had been a deep snow and hard frost for nearly three weeks before; but now the aspect of the white earth contrasted wildly with the large masses of black clouds which hung motionless in the air, and cast a dark and gloomy spirit not only over the appearance of inanimate nature, but into the heart of man himself."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length22 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2CHAPTER I.—An Irish Pair and Spoileen Tent
3CHAPTER II.—Birth and Origin of Mr. M'Clutchy
4CHAPTER III.—Solomon M'Slime, a Religious Attorney
5CHAPTER IV.—Poll Doolin, the Child Cadger
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6CHAPTER V.—A Mysterious Meeting
7CHAPTER VI.—The Life and Virtues of an Irish Absentee
8CHAPTER VII.—Reflections on Absenteeism
9CHAPTER VIII.—Poverty and Sorrow
10CHAPTER IX.—A Dialogue, exhibiting Singular Principles of Justice
11CHAPTER X.—A Dutiful Grandson and a Respectable Grandmother
12CHAPTER XI.—Darby and Solomon at Prayer
13CHAPTER XII.—Interview between Darby and Mr. Lucre
14CHAPTER XIII.—Darby's Brief Retirement from Public Life.
15CHAPTER XIV.—Poll Doolin's Honesty, and Phil's Gallantry
16CHAPTER XV.—Objects of an English Traveller
17CHAPTER XVI.—Solomon in Trouble
18CHAPTER XVII.—A Moral Survey, or a Wise Man led by a Fool
19CHAPTER XVIII.—An Execution by Val's Blood-Hounds
20CHAPTER XIX.—An Orange Lodge at Full Work
21CHAPTER XX.—Sobriety and Loyalty
22CHAPTER XXI.—Darby's Piety Rewarded
23CHAPTEK XXII.—-Castle Cumber Grand Jury Room
24CHAPTER XXIII.—A Rent Day
25CHAPTEK XXIV.—Raymond's Sense of Justice
26CHAPTER XXV.—Val and his Son brought to Trial
27CHAPTER XXVI.—Harman's Interview with Mary M'Loughlin
28CHAPTER XXVII.—Bob Beatty's Last Illness
29CHAPTER XXVIII.—Darby is a Spiritual Ganymede
30CHAPTER XXIX.—Solomon Suffers a Little Retribution
31CHAPTER XXX.—The Mountain Grave-Yard
32CHAPTER XXXI.—Richard Topertoe and his Brother
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