Books with author Charles K. Levy

Excerpt from The O'donoghue, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago, to Which Is Added a Rent in a CloudAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from That Boy of Norcott's; A Rent in a Cloud; St. Patrick's EveSome years ago there was a trial in Dublin, which, partly because the parties in the cause were in a well-to-do condition of life, and partly because the case, in some measure, involved the interests of the two conflicting Churches, excited considerable sensation and much comment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Luttrell of ArranSure isn't he giving her the blessed Sac rament I said she, indignantly.Leave me, then - leave me in peace, said he, as he turned away and leaned his head on the chimney-piece; and then; without raising it, added, and tell the priest to come to me before he goes away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Knight of Gwynne, Vol. 2 of 2What a strange turn of fortune! Said he, at length, as relieving his overburdened brain by speech. I remember well the last day I ever saw her; it was just before my departure for England for my marriage. I remember well driving over to Castle Daly to say good-bye! Perhaps, too, I had some lurking vanity in exhibiting that splendid team of four grays, with two outriders. How perfect it all was! And a proud fellow I was that day! Maria was looking very handsome; She was dressed for riding, but ordered the horses back as I drove up. What Spirits She had! With What zest She seized upon the enjoyments her youth, her beauty, and her fortune gave her! How ardently she indulged every costly caprice and every whim, as if revel ling in the pleasure of extravagance even for its own sake! Fearless in everything, She did indeed seem like a native princess, surrounded by all that barbaric splendor of her father's house, the troops of servants, the equipages with out number, the guests that came and went unceasingly, all rendering homage to her beauty. 't was a gorgeous dream of life, and well she understood how to realize all its enchantment. We scarcely parted good friends on that same last day, said he, after a pause; her manner was almost mordant. I can recall the cutting sarcasms she dealt around her, -strange exuberance of high spirits carried away to the wildest flights of fancy; and after all, when, having dropped my glove, I returned to the luncheon room to seek it, I saw her in a window, bathed in tears; she did not perceive me, and we never met after. Poor girl! Were those outpourings of sorrow the compensation nature exacted for the exercise of such brilliant powers of wit and imagination? Or had she really, as some believed, a secret attachment somewhere? Who knows? And now we are to meet again, after years of absence, so fallen too! If it were not for these gray hairs and this wrinkled brow, I could believe it all a dream; and what is it but a dream, if we are not fashioned to act differently because of our calamities? Events are but shadows if they move us not.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The O'donoghue, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago; To Which Is Added a Rent in a CloudIt was no new thing to me to know the Irish peasant in his character of a hoarder and a saver. There is no one trait so indicative of the Celt as acquisitiveness, nor does Eastern story contain a man more given to the castle-building that grows out of some secret hoard however small - than Paddy. He is to add half an acre to his potato garden, or to buy another pig, or to send the gossoon to a school in the town, or to pay his passage to New York. This tendency to construct a future, so strong in the Irish nature, has its rise in a great reliance on what he feels to be the goodness of God a firm conviction that all his struggles are watched and cared for, and that every little turn of good fortune has been given him by some especial favor, lies deep in his nature, and suggests an amount of hope to him which a less sanguine spirit could never have conceived.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Is Added Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Esq., Late Secretary of LegationAn hour ago, my Lady less than an hour ago. I did not dare to write; and then I wished to be myself the bearer of my own good news.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Is Added Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Esq., Late Secretary of LegationAn hour ago, my Lady less than an hour ago. I did not dare to write; and then I wished to be myself the bearer of my own good news.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Charles O'malley, Vol. 1 of 2: The Irish DragoonWhile, however, I was sifting these evidences, and sepa rating, as well as I might, the wheat from the chafi', I was in a measure training myself for what, without my then knowing it, was to become my career in life. This was not therefore altogether without a certain degree of labour, but so light and pleasant withal, so full of picturesque peeps at character and humourous views of human nature, that it would be the very rankest ingratitude of me if I did not own that I gained all my earlier experiences of the world in very pleasant company - highly enjoyable at the time, and with matter for charming souvenirs long after.That certain traits of my acquaintances found them selves embodied in some of the characters of this story, I do not seek to deny. The principle of natural selection adapts itself to novels as to nature, and it would have demanded an effort above my strength to have disabused myself at the desk of all the impressions of the dinner table, and to have forgotten features which interested or amused me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Martins of Cro' MartinIf I wished to evidence something of this, still more did I desire to illustrate what might be done by a generous and kindly treatment of the people, especially at the hands of those who thoroughly understand and appreciate them, knowing well the complex web of their intricate natures, and able to dis criminate between the real and unreal in their strangely involved characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Federal Judge: A NovelThe weather is not an important factor in this tale, if the following record of events, set down in their order and influencing one another so as to produce other events, may be correctly called a tale, - yet such was the beauty of the September morning when our chronicle begins, that it is per haps just as well to allude to it. One delights to set sail or to start on a long journey under a fair sky; and as there are shadows as well as sunshine in the lives of those with whom we are soon to become acquainted, it is well to begin with the sunshine in order to have an account to the good.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.