J O Y C E
JOYCE
BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF ‘THE SECOND SON,’ ‘A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN,’
‘THE WIZARD’S SON,’ ‘EFFIE OGILVIE,’ ETC.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1891
All rights reserved
First Edition (3 Vols. Crown 8vo), 1888
Second Edition (1 Vol. Crown 8vo), 1889
Reprinted 1891
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CHAPTER I
It was a coming of age, and yet not a coming of age. The hero in honourof whom all these festivities were, was a bearded man, who had beenabsent in all sorts of dangerous places since the moment when he wassupposed formally to have ended the state of pupilage. That had beenlater than common, since the will of his uncle, whom he had succeeded,had stipul