[Being a letter from Henry Gastonard of the Maison du bon Tabac at Paris to his friend Paddy O’Connell of Glendalough, County Wicklow.] Dear Paddy,--You will have seen it in the papers, if papers still cross the pass to those ancient halls which enshroud the immortal glories of the clan O’Connell--but, my dear Paddy, you will have little idea of its meaning or be as far from the truth of it as Paul Delmet from a parson’s cassock or the Chevalier Honoré de Villefort from the castles in Spain which the entirely disinterested Baroness has lately bequeathed to him.…
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