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Nutter, relict of the late Charles Nutter, gentleman, of the Mills, in the parish of Chapelizod, barony of Castleknock, and county of Dublin, deposing to her marriage with the said Charles Nutter having been celebrated in the Church of St. Clement Danes, in London, on the 7th of April, 1750.
'Ay, here we have him Chapelizod Sturk, Barnabas Surgeon, R.I.A., assignee of John Lowe hey! one gale day, as you call it, only! September. How came that? Rent, £40. Why, then, he owes a whole year's rent, £40, Ma'am. September, and his days of grace have expired. He ought to have paid it.
And here, at the hermitage of our jolly Chapelizod priest for bride and bridegroom were alike of the 'ancient faith' the treaty was ratified, and the bagpipe and the bridegroom, in tremendous unison, splitting the rafters with 'Hymen, Hymen, O Hymenoee!
Sir Philip Drayton was one of the signatures, and it satisfied the attorney. 'When I came to Chapelizod, though, I soon found that the devil had not done with me, and that I was like to have some more unpleasant work on my hands. I did not know that Irons was above ground, nor he either that I was living.
It does not look a day older than it did fifty years ago, I can tell you. There he stands the same; and yet a stranger in the place of his birth, in a new order of things, joyless, busy, transformed Chapelizod, listening, as it seems to me, always to the unchanged song and prattle of the river, with his reveries and affections far away among by-gone times and a buried race.
It was dark as he rode out by the low road to Chapelizod crest-fallen, beaten scowling in the darkness through his horse's ears along the straight black line of road, and wishing, as he passed the famous Dog-house, that he might be stopped and plundered, and thus furnished with a decent excuse for his penniless condition, and a plea in which all the world would sympathise for a short indulgence and, faith! he did not much care if they sent a bullet through his harassed brain.
When your humble servant, Charles de Cresseron, the compiler of this narrative, was a boy some fourteen years old how long ago precisely that was, is nothing to the purpose, 'tis enough to say he remembers what he then saw and heard a good deal better than what happened a week ago it came to pass that he was spending a pleasant week of his holidays with his benign uncle and godfather, the curate of Chapelizod.
I don't know whether there may not have been some slight sign in the handwriting in a phrase, perhaps, or in the structure of the composition, which a clever analysis might have detected, and which only reached him vaguely, with a foreboding that he was not to see Chapelizod again so soon as usual when this trip was made. And, in truth, his aunt had plans.
To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him; and Devereux, who had a vein of satire, and loved even farce, enjoyed the heroics of the fat old slut.
'Oh, you've only to enquire anyone who knows Chapelizod will tell you who I am; and you'll want something eh? to take you out of this how much? 'Only seven guineas. There's a little score here, and some fees. Eighteen will cover everything, unless something has come in this morning. So they went to 'the Hatch, and made enquiries, and all being well, Mr.
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