The Purcell Papers

Being a Fifth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owning to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, were allowed to quit their country for England, unmolested, with their personal property. Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as you'd find in the seven parishes, an' he was a beautiful singer, an'an illegant dancer intirely, an'a mighty plisant boy in himself; but he had the divil's bad luck, for he married for love, an'av coorse he niver had an asy minute afther.