My New Curate

Sheehan, P A

Literature & Fiction

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My New Curate: A Story

Literary

Legare Street Press

My New Curate (Classic Reprint): A Story Gathered From the Stray Leaves of an Old Diary

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Excerpt: ...a sight as that table to-night?" "Never," I replied, resignedly. "Would any one believe, when we came on the mission, that we'd live to see such things? Why, these fellows talk up to us as if we were their equals. Don't you remember when a curate daren't open his mouth at table?" "Of course," I replied, demurely. "And it is only now I am beginning to discover the vagaries of this chap of mine. Do you know what he wants? A shrine, if you please,

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<p>Sheehan is best remembered as a novelist; in his novel My New Curate, he recounts an incident of a clerical appointment that may well be autobiographical and refer to his arrival in Doneraile: "The Bishop sent for me and said, with what I would call a tone of pity or contempt, but he was incapable of either, for he was the essence of charity and sincerity: 'Father Dan, you are a bit of a literateur, I understand. Kilronan is vacant. You'll have plenty of time for poetising and dreaming there. What do you say to it?' I put on a little dignity, and though my heart was beating with delight, I quietly thanked his Lordship. But, when I had passed beyond the reach of episcopal vision, which is far stretching enough, I spun my hat in the air, and shouted like a schoolboy: 'Hurrah!'".</p>

My new curate : a story gathered from the stray leaves of an old diary. By: P. A. Sheehan ( Patrick Augustine Sheehan) NOVEL (Illustrated)

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