Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 / 2008-07-28 00:00:00
EBOOK TWO GHOSTLY MYSTERIES ***
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A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF A TYRONE FAMILY
AND
THE MURDERED COUSIN
Two stories by J.S. LeFanu
A Chapter in the History was first published in 1836.
The Murdered Cousin was first published in 1851.
A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF A TYRONE FAMILY
Being a Tenth Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell,
P.P. of Drumcoolagh
INTRODUCTION. In the following narrative, I have endeavoured to give
as nearly as possible the "_ipsissima verba_" of the valued friend
from whom I received it, conscious that any aberration from her mode
of telling the tale of her own life, would at once impair its accuracy
and its effect. Would that, with her words, I could also bring before
you her animated gesture, her expressive countenance, the solemn and
thrilling air and accent with which she related the dark passages
in her strange story; and, above all, that I could communicate the
impressive consciousness that the narrator had seen with her own
eyes, and personally acted in the scenes which she described; these
accompaniments, taken with the additional circumstance, that she
who told the tale was one far too deeply and sadly impressed with
religious principle, to misrepresent or fabricate what she repeated as
fact, gave to the tale a depth of interest which the events recorded
could hardly, themselves, have produced.
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