Chapter I: Front Matter

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.--Interview between Trailcudgel
and the Stranger--A Peep at
Lord Dunroe and his Friend

XX.--Interview between Lords Cullamore,
Dunroe, and Lady Emily
--Tom Norton's Aristocracy
fails him--His Reception by
Lord Cullamore

XXI.--A Spy Rewarded--Sir Thomas
Gourlay Charged Home by the
Stranger with, the Removal and
Disappearance of his Brother's Son

XXII.--Lucy at.Summerfield Cottage

XXIII.-- A Lunch in Summerfield Cottage.

XXIV.--An Irish Watchhouse in the time
of the “Charlies”

XXV.--The Police Office -- Sir Spigot
Sputter and Mr. Coke--An “Unfortunate
Translator--Decision in “a Law Case”

XXVI.-- The Priest Returns Sir Thomas's
Money and Pistols--A Bit of
Controversy--A New Light Begins
to Appear

XXVII. --Sir Thomas, who Shams Illness,
is too sharp for Mrs. Mainwaring,
who visits Him--Lucy calls upon
Lady Gourlay, where she meets her
Lover--Affecting Interview between
Lucy and Lady Gourlay

XXVIII.--Innocence and Affection
overcome by Fraud and Hypocrisy--Lucy
yields at Last

XXIX.--Lord Dunroe's Affection for his
Father--Glimpse of a new Character
--Lord Cullamore's Rebuke to his Son,
who greatly Refuses to give up his Friend

XXX.--A Courtship on Novel Principles

XXXI.--The Priest goes into Corbet's
House very like a Thief--a Sederunt,
with a Bright look up for Mr. Gray

XXXII.--Discovery of the Baronet's Son
--Who, however, is Shelved for a Time

XXXIII.--The Priest asks for a Loan of
Fifty Guineas, and Offers “Freney
the Robber” as Security

XXXIV.--Young Gourlay's Affectionate
Interview with His Father--Risk
of Strangulation -- Movements
of M'Bride

XXXV.--Lucy's Vain but Affecting
Expostulation with her Father--Her
Terrible Denunciation of
Ambrose Gray

XXXVI.--Which contains a variety of
Matters, some to Laugh and some
to Weep at

XXXVII.--Dandy's Visit to Summerfield
Cottage, where he Makes a most Ungallant
Mistake -- Return with Tidings of both
Mrs. Norton and Fenton--and Generously
Patronizes his Master

XXXVIII.--Anthony Corbet gives Important
Documents to the Stranger--An
Unpleasant Disclosure to Dunroe
--Norton catches a Tartar

XXXIX.--Fenton Recovered--The Mad-House

XL.--Lady Gourlay sees her Son

XLI.--Denouement