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JOSEPH SHERIDAN
LE FANU
THE HOUSE
BY THE
CHURCHYARD
Москва, 2018
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Churchyard / J. F. Le Fanu. – М. :
T8RUGRAM / Original, 2018. – 714 с.
ISBN 978-5-521-06166-2
The House by the Churchyard is a novel by
Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines
elements of the mystery novel and the historical
novel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard,
and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose
repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm and chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of the greatest
novels of a Victorian master of mystery.
© T8RUGRAM, оформление, 2018
ISBN 978-5-521-06166-2 © Original, 2018
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CONTENTS
A PROLOGUE – BEING A DISH
OF VILLAGE CHAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CHAPTER I. THE RECTOR’S NIGHT-WALK
TO HIS CHURCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CHAPTER II. THE NAMELESS COFFIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
CHAPTER III. MR. MERVYN IN HIS INN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
CHAPTER IV. THE FAIR-GREEN OF PALMERSTOWN. . . . . . . . . . 39
CHAPTER V. HOW THE ROYAL IRISH ARTILLERY
ENTERTAINED SOME OF THE NEIGHBOURS AT DINNER. . . 50
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH THE MINSTRELSY PROCEEDS. . . . . .61
CHAPTER VII. SHOWING HOW TWO GENTLEMEN
MAY MISUNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER, WITHOUT
ENABLING THE COMPANY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR
QUARREL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
CHAPTER VIII. RELATING HOW DOCTOR TOOLE
AND CAPTAIN DEVEREUX WENT ON A MOONLIGHT
ERRAND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER IX. HOW A SQUIRE WAS FOUND FOR
THE KNIGHT OF THE RUEFUL COUNTENANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
CHAPTER X. THE DEAD SECRET, SHOWING HOW
THE FIREWORKER PROVED TO PUDDOCK THAT NUTTER
HAD SPIED OUT THE NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND. . . . . . . . . . . .86
CHAPTER XI. SOME TALK ABOUT THE HAUNTED
HOUSE – BEING, AS I SUPPOSE, ONLY OLD WOMAN’S
TALES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
CHAPTER XII. SOME ODD FACTS ABOUT THE TILED HOUSE
– BEING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE
OF THE GHOST OF A HAND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH THE RECTOR VISITS
THE TILED HOUSE, AND DOCTOR TOOLE LOOKS
AFTER THE BRASS CASTLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
CHAPTER XIV. RELATING HOW PUDDOCK PURGED
O’FLAHERTY’S HEAD – A CHAPTER WHICH,
IT IS HOPED, NO GENTEEL PERSON WILL READ. . . . . . . . . . . . .112
CHAPTER XV. ÆSCULAPIUS TO THE RESCUE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
CHAPTER XVI. THE ORDEAL BY BATTLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
CHAPTER XVII. LIEUTENANT PUDDOCK RECEIVES
AN INVITATION AND A RAP OVER THE KNUCKLES. . . . . . . .136
CHAPTER XVIII. RELATING HOW THE GENTLEMEN
SAT OVER THEIR CLARET, AND HOW DR. STURK SAW
A FACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH THE GENTLEMEN FOLLOW
THE LADIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
CHAPTER XX. IN WHICH MR. DANGERFIELD VISITS
THE CHURCH OF CHAPELIZOD, AND ZEKIEL IRONS
GOES A FISHING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
CHAPTER XXI. RELATING AMONG OTHER THINGS
HOW DOCTOR TOOLE WALKED UP TO THE TILED
HOUSE; AND OF HIS PLEASANT DISCOURSE
WITH MR. MERVYN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
CHAPTER XXII. TELLING HOW MR. MERVYN FARED
AT BELMONT, AND OF A PLEASANT LITTLE DEJEUNER
BY THE MARGIN OF THE LIFFEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
CHAPTER XXIII. WHICH CONCERNS THE GRAND
DINNER AT THE KING’S HOUSE, AND WHO WERE
THERE, AND SOMETHING OF THEIR TALK, REVERIES,
DISPUTES, AND GENERAL JOLLITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
CHAPTER XXIV. IN WHICH TWO YOUNG PERSONS
UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER BETTER, PERHAPS,
THAN EVER THEY DID BEFORE, WITHOUT SAYING SO. . . .185
CHAPTER XXV. IN WHICH THE SUN SETS,
AND THE MERRY-MAKING IS KEPT UP BY CANDLE-LIGHT
IN THE KING’S HOUSE, AND LILY RECEIVES A WARNING
WHICH SHE DOES NOT COMPREHEND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
CHAPTER XXVI. RELATING HOW THE BAND
OF THE ROYAL IRISH ARTILLERY PLAYED, AND,
WHILE THE MUSIC WAS GOING ON, HOW
VARIOUSLY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WERE MOVED. . . . . . . . . . . . .199
CHAPTER XXVII. CONCERNING THE TROUBLES
AND THE SHAPES THAT BEGAN TO GATHER
ABOUT DOCTOR STURK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
CHAPTER XXVIII. IN WHICH MR. IRONS RECOUNTS
SOME OLD RECOLLECTIONS ABOUT THE PIED HORSE
AND THE FLOWER DE LUCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWING HOW POOR MRS. MACNAMARA
WAS TROUBLED AND HAUNTED TOO, AND OPENING
A BUDGET OF GOSSIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
CHAPTER XXX. CONCERNING A CERTAIN WOMAN
IN BLACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
CHAPTER XXXI. BEING A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE GREAT BATTLE OF BELMONT THAT LASTED
FOR SO MANY DAYS, WHEREIN THE BELLIGERENTS
SHOWED SO MUCH CONSTANCY AND VALOUR,
AND SOMETIMES ONE SIDE AND SOMETIMES T’OTHER
WAS VICTORIOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
CHAPTER XXXII. NARRATING HOW LIEUTENANT
PUDDOCK AND CAPTAIN DEVEREUX BREWED
A BOWL OF PUNCH, AND HOW THEY SANG
AND DISCOURSED TOGETHER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH CAPTAIN DEVEREUX’S
FIDDLE PLAYS A PRELUDE TO ‘OVER THE HILLS
AND FAR AWAY.’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH LILIAS HEARS A STAVE
OF AN OLD SONG AND THERE IS A LEAVE-TAKING
BESIDE THE RIVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH AUNT BECKY AND DOCTOR
TOOLE, IN FULL BLOW, WITH DOMINICK, THE FOOTMAN,
BEHIND THEM, VISIT MISS LILY AT THE ELMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
CHAPTER XXXVI. NARRATING HOW MISS LILIAS
VISITED BELMONT, AND SAW A STRANGE COCKED-HAT
IN THE SHADOW BY THE WINDOW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251
CHAPTER XXXVII. SHOWING HOW SOME OF THE FEUDS
IN CHAPELIZOD WAXED FIERCER, AND OTHERS
WERE SOLEMNLY CONDONED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
CHAPTER XXXVIII. DREAMS AND TROUBLES,
AND A DARK LOOK-OUT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
CHAPTER XXXIX. TELLING HOW LILIAS WALSINGHAM
FOUND TWO LADIES AWAITING HER ARRIVAL AT THE
ELMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268
CHAPTER XL. OF A MESSENGER FROM CHAPELIZOD
VAULT WHO WAITED IN THE TYLED HOUSE FOR MR.
MERVYN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
CHAPTER XLI. IN WHICH THE RECTOR COMES HOME,
AND LILY SPEAKS HER MIND, AND TIME GLIDES ON,
AND AUNT REBECCA CALLS AT THE ELMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
CHAPTER XLII. IN WHICH DR. STURK TRIES THIS WAY
AND THAT FOR A REPRIEVE ON THE EVE
OF EXECUTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284
CHAPTER XLIII. SHOWING HOW CHARLES NUTTER’S
BLOW DESCENDED, AND WHAT PART THE SILVER
SPECTACLES BORE IN THE CRISIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
CHAPTER XLIV. RELATING HOW, IN THE WATCHES
OF THE NIGHT, A VISION CAME TO STURK,
AND HIS EYES WERE OPENED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
CHAPTER XLV. CONCERNING A LITTLE REHEARSAL
IN CAPTAIN CLUFFE’S, LODGING, AND A CERTAIN
CONFIDENCE BETWEEN DR. STURK AND MR. DANGER-
FIELD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
CHAPTER XLVI. THE CLOSET SCENE, WITH THE PART
OF POLONIUS OMITTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
CHAPTER XLVII. IN WHICH PALE HECATE VISITS
THE MILLS, AND CHARLES NUTTER, ESQ., ORDERS TEA. . . .312
CHAPTER XLVIII. SWANS ON THE WATER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
CHAPTER XLIX. SWANS IN THE WATER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
CHAPTER L. TREATING OF SOME CONFUSION,
IN CONSEQUENCE, IN THE CLUB-ROOM
OF THE PHŒNIX AND ELSEWHERE, AND OF A HAT
THAT WAS PICKED UP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
CHAPTER LI. HOW CHARLES NUTTER’S TEA, PIPE,
AND TOBACCO-BOX WERE ALL SET OUT FOR HIM
IN THE SMALL PARLOUR AT THE MILLS; AND HOW
THAT NIGHT WAS PASSED IN THE HOUSE BY THE
CHURCH-YARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340
CHAPTER LII. CONCERNING A ROULEAU OF GUINEAS
AND THE CRACK OF A PISTOL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347
CHAPTER LIII. RELATING AFTER WHAT FASHION
DR. STURK CAME HOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351
CHAPTER LIV. IN WHICH MISS MAGNOLIA
MACNAMARA AND DR. TOOLE, IN DIFFERENT SCENES,
PROVE THEMSELVES GOOD SAMARITANS; AND
THE GREAT DOCTOR PELL MOUNTS THE STAIRS
OF THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357
CHAPTER LV. IN WHICH DR. TOOLE, IN FULL COSTUME,
STANDS UPON THE HEARTH-STONE OF THE CLUB,
AND ILLUMINATES THE COMPANY WITH HIS BACK
TO THE FIRE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
CHAPTER LVI. DOCTOR WALSINGHAM
AND THE CHAPELIZOD CHRISTIANS MEET
TO THE SOUND OF THE HOLY BELL, AND A VAMPIRE
SITS IN THE CHURCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .369
CHAPTER LVII. IN WHICH DR. TOOLE AND MR. LOWE
MAKE A VISIT AT THE MILLS, AND RECOGNISE
SOMETHING REMARKABLE WHILE THERE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373
CHAPTER LVIII. IN WHICH ONE OF LITTLE BOPEEP’S
SHEEP COMES HOME AGAIN, AND VARIOUS THEORIES
ARE ENTERTAINED RESPECTING CHARLES NUTTER
AND LIEUTENANT PUDDOCK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380
CHAPTER LIX. TELLING HOW A COACH DREW UP
AT THE ELMS, AND TWO FINE LADIES, DRESSED FOR
THE BALL, STEPPED IN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
CHAPTER LX. BEING A CHAPTER OF HOOPS, FEATHERS,
AND BRILLIANTS, AND BUCKS AND FIDDLERS. . . . . . . . . . . . .394
CHAPTER LXI. IN WHICH THE GHOSTS OF A BY-GONE
SIN KEEP TRYST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
CHAPTER LXII. OF A SOLEMN RESOLUTION WHICH
CAPTAIN DEVEREUX REGISTERED AMONG HIS HOUSE-
HOLD GODS, WITH A LIBATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406
CHAPTER LXIII. IN WHICH A LIBERTY IS TAKEN WITH
MR. NUTTER’S NAME, AND MR. DANGERFIELD STANDS
AT THE ALTAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412
CHAPTER LXIV. BEING A NIGHT SCENE, IN WHICH
MISS GERTRUDE CHATTESWORTH, BEING ADJURED
BY AUNT BECKY, MAKES ANSWER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .420
CHAPTER LXV. RELATING SOME AWFUL NEWS
THAT REACHED THE VILLAGE, AND HOW DR. WALSINGHAM VISITED CAPTAIN RICHARD DEVEREUX
AT HIS LODGINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427
CHAPTER LXVI. OF A CERTAIN TEMPEST THAT AROSE
AND SHOOK THE CAPTAIN’S SPOONS AND TEA-CUPS;
AND HOW THE WIND SUDDENLY WENT DOWN. . . . . . . . . .432
CHAPTER LXVII. IN WHICH A CERTAIN TROUBLED
SPIRIT WALKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439
CHAPTER LXVIII. HOW AN EVENING PASSES AT THE ELMS,
AND DR. TOOLE MAKES A LITTLE EXCURSION; AND
TWO CHOICE SPIRITS DISCOURSE, AND HEBE TRIPS
IN WITH THE NECTAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .444
CHAPTER LXIX. CONCERNING A SECOND HURRICANE
THAT RAGED IN CAPTAIN DEVEREUX’S DRAWING-ROOM,
AND RELATING HOW MRS. IRONS WAS ATTACKED
WITH A SORT OF CHOKING IN HER BED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .450
CHAPTER LXX. IN WHICH AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR
IS SEEN. IN THE CEDAR-PARLOUR OF THE TILED HOUSE,
AND THE STORY OF MR. BEAUCLERC AND THE ‘FLOWER
DE LUCE’ BEGINS TO BE UNFOLDED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457
CHAPTER LXXI. IN WHICH MR. IRONS’S NARRATIVE
REACHES MERTON MOOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465
CHAPTER LXXII. IN WHICH THE APPARITION
OF MR. IRONS IS SWALLOWED IN DARKNESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .472
CHAPTER LXXIII. CONCERNING A CERTAIN GENTLEMAN,
WITH A BLACK PATCH OVER HIS EYE, WHO MADE SOME
VISITS WITH A LADY, IN CHAPELIZOD AND ITS NEIGH-
BOURHOOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .478
CHAPTER LXXIV. IN WHICH DOCTOR TOOLE, IN HIS
BOOTS, VISITS MR. GAMBLE, AND SEES AN UGLY CLIENT
OF THAT GENTLEMAN’S; AND SOMETHING CROSSES
AN EMPTY ROOM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .484
CHAPTER LXXV. HOW A GENTLEMAN PAID A VISIT
AT THE BRASS CASTLE, AND THERE READ A PARAGRAPH
IN AN OLD NEWSPAPER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .490
CHAPTER LXXVI. RELATING HOW THE CASTLE WAS
TAKEN, AND HOW MISTRESS MOGGY TOOK HEART
OF GRACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .497
CHAPTER LXXVII. IN WHICH IRISH MELODY PREVAILS. . . .505
CHAPTER LXXVIII. IN WHICH, WHILE THE HARMONY
CONTINUES IN FATHER ROACH’S FRONT PARLOUR,
A FEW DISCORDS ARE INTRODUCED ELSEWHERE;
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