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towards the offender, to
repudiating his wife and disowning his children. Now for the
application. Certain captious and incredulous people have doubted the
veracity of the adventures I have recorded in these pages; I do not think
it necessary to appeal to concurrent testimony and credible witnesses
for their proof, but I pledge myself to the fact that every tittle I have
related is as true as that my name is Lorrequer--need I say more?
Another objection has been made to my narrative, and I cannot pass it
by without a word of remark;--"these Confessions are wanting in
scenes of touching and pathetic interest" (FOOTNOTE: We have the
author's permission to state, that all the pathetic and moving incidents
of his career he has reserved for a second series of "Confessions," to be
entitled "Lorrequer Married?"--Publisher's Note.)--true, quite true; but I
console myself on this head, for I remember hearing of an author whose
paraphrase of the book of Job was refused by a publisher, if he could
not throw a little more humour into it; and if I have not been more
miserable and more unhappy, I am very sorry for it on your account,
but you must excuse my regretting it on my own. Another story and I
have done;--the Newgate Calendar makes mention of a notorious
housebreaker, who closed his career of outrage and violence by the
murder of a whole family, whose house he robbed; on the scaffold he
entreated permission to speak a few words to the crowd beneath, and

thus addressed them:--"My friends, it is quite true I murdered this
family; in cold blood I did it--one by one they fell beneath my hand,
while I rifled their coffers, and took forth their effects; but one thing is
imputed to me, which I cannot die without denying--it is asserted that I
stole an extinguisher; the contemptible character of this petty theft is a
stain upon my reputation, that I cannot suffer to disgrace my memory."
So would I now address you for all the graver offences of my book; I
stand forth guilty--miserably, palpably guilty--they are mine every one
of them; and I dare not, I cannot deny them; but if you think that the
blunders in French and the hash of spelling so widely spread through
these pages, are attributable to me; on the faith of a gentleman I pledge
myself you are wrong, and that I had nothing to do with them. If my
thanks for the kindness and indulgence with which these hastily written
and rashly conceived sketches have been received by the press and the
public, are of any avail, let me add, in conclusion, that a more grateful
author does not exist than
HARRY LORREQUER

CONTENTS:
Volume 1.
CHAPTER I
Arrival in Cork--Civic Festivities--Private Theatricals
CHAPTER II
Detachment Duty--The Burton Arms--Callonby
CHAPTER III
Life at Callonby--Love-making--Miss O'Dowd's Adventure
CHAPTER IV

Botanical Studies--The Natural System preferable to the Linnaean
CHAPTER V
Puzzled--Explanation--Makes bad worse--The Duel
CHAPTER VI
The Priest's Supper--Father Malachi and the Coadjutor--Major Jones
and the Abbe
CHAPTER VII
The Lady's Letter--Peter and his Acquaintances--Too late
CHAPTER VIII
Congratulations--Sick Leave--How to pass the Board
CHAPTER IX
The Road--Travelling Acquaintances--A Packet Adventure
CHAPTER X
Upset--Mind and Body
Volume 2.
CHAPTER XI
Cheltenham--Matrimonial Adventure--Showing how to make love for a
friend
CHAPTER XII
Dublin--Tom O'Flaherty--A Reminiscence of the Peninsula

CHAPTER XIII
Dublin--The Boarding-house--Select Society
CHAPTER XIV
The Chase
CHAPTER XV
Mems Of the North Cork
CHAPTER XVI
Theatricals
CHAPTER XVI
* (The chapter # is a repeat) The Wager
CHAPTER XVII
The Elopement
Volume 3.
CHAPTER XVIII
Detachment Duty--An Assize Town
CHAPTER XIX
The Assize Town
CHAPTER XX
A Day in Dublin

CHAPTER XXI
A Night at Howth
CHAPTER XXII
The Journey
CHAPTER XXIII
Calais
Volume 4.
CHAPTER XXIV
The Gen d'Arme
CHAPTER XXV
The Inn at Chantraine
CHAPTER XXVI
Mr O'Leary
CHAPTER XXVII
Paris
CHAPTER XXVIII
Paris
Volume 5.
CHAPTER XXIX

Captain Trevanion's Adventure
CHAPTER XXX
Difficulties
CHAPTER XXXI
Explanation
CHAPTER XXXII
Mr O'Leary's First Love
CHAPTER XXXIII
Mr O'Leary's Second Love
CHAPTER XXXIV
The Duel
CHAPTER XXXV
Early Recollections--A First Love
CHAPTER XXXVI
Wise Resolves
CHAPTER XXXVII
The Proposal
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Thoughts upon Matrimony in general, and in the Army in

particular--The Knight of Kerry and Billy M'Cabe
CHAPTER XXXIX
A Reminiscence
CHAPTER XL
The Two Letters
CHAPTER XLI
Mr O'Leary's Capture

Volume 6.
CHAPTER XLII.
The Journey
CHAPTER XLIII.
The Journey
CHAPTER XLIV.
A Reminscence of the East
CHAPTER XLV.
A Day in the Phoenix
CHAPTER XLVI.
An Adventure in Canada

CHAPTER XLVII.
The Courier's Passport
CHAPTER XLVIII.
A Night in Strasbourg
CHAPTER XLIX.
A Surprise
CHAPTER L.
Jack Waller's Story
CHAPTER LI.
Munich
CHAPTER LII.
Inn at Munich
CHAPTER LIII.
The Ball
CHAPTER LIV.
A Discovery
CHAPTER LV.
Conclusion

A WORD OF INTRODUCTION.
"Story! God bless you; I have none to tell, sir."