CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND
CHAPTER II. MR. ADISTER
CHAPTER III. CAROLINE
CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCESS
CHAPTER V. AT THE PIANO, CHIEFLY WITHOUT MUSIC
CHAPTER VI. A CONSULTATION: WITH OPINIONS UPON WELSHWOMEN AND THE CAMBRIAN RACE
CHAPTER VII. THE MINIATURE
CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN CON AND MRS. ADISTER O'DONNELL
CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN
CHAPTER X. THE BROTHERS
CHAPTER XI. INTRODUCING A NEW CHARACTER
CHAPTER XII. MISS MATTOCK
CHAPTER XIII. THE DINNER-PARTY
CHAPTER XIV. OF ROCKNEY
CHAPTER XV. THE MATTOCK FAMILY
CHAPTER XVI. OF THE GREAT MR. BULL AND THE CELTIC AND SAXON VIEW OF HIM
CHAPTER XVII. CROSSING THE RUBICON
CHAPTER XVIII. CAPTAIN CON'S LETTER
CHAPTER XIX. MARS CONVALESCENT
A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O'Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and stay. But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privilege of making the journey in this very train. He asked himself earnestly what was the nature of the power which forced him to do it—a bad genius or a good: and it seemed to him a sort of answer, inasmuch as it silenced the contending parties, that he had been the victim of an impetus. True; still his present position involved a certain outlay of money simply, not at all his bondage to the instrument it had procured for him, and that was true; nevertheless, to buy a ticket to shy it away is an incident so uncommon,