The House by the Church-Yard

CHAPTER I.

THE RECTOR'S NIGHT-WALK TO HIS CHURCH.

A.D. 1767--in the beginning of the month of May--I mention it because, as I said, I write from memoranda, an awfully dark night came down on Chapelizod and all the country round.

I believe there was no moon, and the stars had been quite put out under the wet 'blanket of the night,' which impenetrable muffle...