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William Carleton
Willy Reilly
The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664601087
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
CHAPTER I.—An Adventure and an Escape.
CHAPTER II. The Cooleen Baum .
CHAPTER III.—Daring Attempt of the Red Rapparee
—Mysterious Disappearance of His Gang—The Avowal
CHAPTER IV.—His Rival makes his Appearance, and its Consequences
—A Sapient Project for our Hero's Conversion
CHAPTER V.—The Plot and the Victims.
CHAPTER VI.—The Warning—an Escape
CHAPTER VII.—An Accidental Incident favorable to Reilly
CHAPTER VIII.—A Conflagration—An Escape—And an Adventure
CHAPTER IX.—A Prospect of Bygone Times
CHAPTER X.—Scenes that took place in the Mountain Cave
CHAPTEE XI.—The Squire's Dinner and his Guests.
CHAPTEE XII.—Sir Robert Meets a Brother Sportsman
—Draws his Nets, but Catches Nothing.
CHAPTER XIII.—Reilly is Taken, but Connived at by the Sheriff
CHAPTER XIV.—Reilly takes Service with Squire Folliard.
CHAPTER XV.—More of Whitecraft's Plots and Pranks
CHAPTER XVI.—Sir Robert ingeniously extricates Himself out of a great Difficulty.
CHAPTER XVII.—Awful Conduct of Squire Folliard
—Fergus Reilly begins to Contravene the Red Rapparee
CHAPTEE XVIII.—Something not very Pleasant for all Parties.
CHAPTER XIX.—Reilly's Disguise Penetrated
CHAPTER XX.—The Rapparee Secured
—Reilly and the Cooleen Bawn Escape, and are Captured.
CHAPTER XXI.—Sir Robert Accepts of an Invitation.
CHAPTER XXII.—The Squire Comforts Whitecraft in his Affliction.
CHAPTER XXIII.—The Squire becomes Theological and a Proselytizer, but signally fails.
CHAPTER XXIV.—Jury of the Olden Time
—Preparations—The Scales of Justice.
CHAPTER XXV.—Reilly stands his Trial
Rumor of Cooleen Bawn 's Treachery—How it appears—Conclusion.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
I am agreeably called upon by my bookseller to prepare for a Second Edition of “Willy Reilly.” This is at all times a pleasing call upon an author; and it is so especially to me, inasmuch as the first Edition was sold at the fashionable, but unreasonable, price of a guinea and a half—a price which, in this age of cheap literature, is almost fatal to the sale of any three-volume novel, no matter what may be its merits. With respect to “Willy Reilly,” it may be necessary to say that I never wrote any work of the same extent in so short a time, or with so much haste. Its popularity, however, has been equal to that of any other of my productions; and the reception which it has experienced from the ablest public and professional critics of the day has far surpassed my expectations. I accordingly take this opportunity of thanking them most sincerely for the favorable verdict which they have generously passed upon it, as I do for their kindness to my humble efforts for the last twenty-eight years. Nothing, indeed, can be a greater encouragement to a literary man, to a novel writer, in fact, than the reflection that he has an honest and generous tribunal to encounter. If he be a quack or an impostor, they will at once detect him; but if he exhibit human nature and truthful character in his pages, it matters not whether he goes to his bookseller's in a coach, or plods there humbly, and on foot; they will forget everything but the value and merit of what he places before them. On this account it is that I reverence and respect them; and indeed I ought to do so, for I owe them the gratitude of a pretty long literary life.
Concerning this Edition, I must