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Title: The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain
The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

Author: William Carleton

Illustrator: M. L. Flanery

Release Date: June 7, 2005 [EBook #16003]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE BLACK BARONET;

OR, THE CHRONICLES OF BALLYTRAIN.

By William Carleton

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER

I.--A Mail Coach by Night, and a Bit
of Moonshine

II.--The Town and its Inhabitants

III.--Paudeen Gair's Receipt how to
make a Bad Dinner a Good One
--The Stranger finds Fenton as
Mysterious as Himself

IV.--An Anonymous Letter--Lucy Gourlay
Avows a Previous Attachment

V.--Sir Thomas Gourlay Fails in Unmasking
the Stranger--Mysterious Conduct of Fenton

VI.--Extraordinary Scene between Fenton
and the Stranger

VII.--The Baronet attempts by Falsehood
to urge his Daughter into
an Avowal of her Lover's Name.

VIII.--The Fortune-Teller--An Equivocal
Prediction

IX. --Candor and Dissimulation

X. --A Family Dialogue--and a Secret
nearly Discovered

XI.--The Stranger's Visit to Father
MacMahon

XII.--Crackenfudge Outwitted by Fenton
--The Baronet, Enraged at
his Daughter's Firmness, strikes Her

XIII.--The Stranger's Second Visit to
Father MacMahon--Something
like an Elopement

XIV.--Crackenfudge put upon a Wrong
Scent--Miss Gourlay takes Refuge
with an Old Friead

XV.--Interview between Lady Gourlay
and the Stranger--Dandy Dulcimer
makes a Discovery--The
Stranger Receives Mysterious
Communications

XVI.--Conception and Perpetration of a
Diabolical Plot against Fenton

XVII.--A Scene in Jemmy Trailcudgel's
--Retributive Justice, or the Robber
Robbed

XVIII. --Dunphy visits the County Wicklow
--Old Sam and his Wife

XIX.--Intervie