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Betty Curran.—Death of Deborah Wilson.—Hard times after the war.—A studious invalid.—Happy end of a Chancery suit.—Fever in the school.—Death of Samuel Grubb 334 to 362

Laying the foundation-stone of Griesemount house.—A grand funeral in Ballitore.—Death of Eliza Grattan.—Kilkea Castle.—Predicted conflagration of the world—quenched in Ballitore by a flood.—Scanty harvest.—Death of Margaret Shackleton.—Visit from George Downes.—Opposition to Lancasterian schools.—Robbers and nightly patrol.—Lord Norbury in Ballitore.—Visit from Dr. E. C. Herbert Orpen, the friend of the deaf and dumb.—Story of Maria Lennon.—The Queen of the Marshalsea.—Death of William P. Le Fanu.—How Julia became Judy in Ballitore.—Repeated bereavements.—Death of the Princess Charlotte.—Prevalence of typhus fever.—Marriage of James White and Mary Pike.—Presentation of plate, and social visiting.—Adult school established.—An afflicted family.—Religious visit from Anna Forster and Priscilla Gurney.—Last re-union of the children of Richard Shackleton.—Particulars of the last illness, and death of the second Abraham Shackleton.—Review of his character 363 to 397

Anecdote of Cowper's cousin, Lafly Austin.—Fever in Ballitore—Elizabeth Fry in Newgate.—Friends in Carlow attacked by the rabble.—John Pim of London.—Visit from large Phibbs.—An old Ballitore pupil attached in death.—Illness of the annalist and her happy recovery.—Benevolent activity of Margaret Bonham.—Theodore E. Suliot.—The "Ballitore Magazine."—Visit from the widow of Richard L. Edgeworth, and the elder son of Sir Walter Scott.—George and Wilhelmina Downes.—A tea party.—Moone house and its transformations.