An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea (68 page)

 

C
ONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Photograph of “Jimmy” Taylor, MB, RAFVR

Author's Note

1. A Party in a Parlour

2. Mighty Things from Small Beginnings Grow

3. Gentlemen of Japan

4. England's Green and Pleasant Land

5. … My Poor Nerves

6. My Flesh Also Longeth After Thee

7. Great Balls of Fire

8. Journeys End in Lovers Meeting

9. To Remember What Is Past

10. What Is the Answer?

11. Never Look Long upon a Monkey

12. The Pity of War

13. Friendly Persuasion

14. Empty Words of a Dream

15. Let Every Puppy Drink

16. A Dream Come True

17. The Bird Is on the Wing

18. So Much Been Owed By So Many to So Few

19. On the Eve of All Hallows

20. … Would Meet in Every Place

21. I Will Make Thee a Terror to Thyself

22. Let's Have a Wedding

23. As the Smart Ship Grew

24. By the Oak Trees' Mossy Moot

25. The Doctor's Dilemma

26. The Shot of Accident

27. The Ear of Jealousy Heareth All Things

28. Better a Finger Off

29. Count the Number

30. All Seems Infected

31. A Bargain Dog Never Bites

32. Engage Himself Openly and Publicly

33. Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget

34. To Everything There Is a Season

35. Events in the Womb

36. Hope Springs Eternal

37. Filled the Tree and Flapped

38. We'll Keep Our Christmas Merry Still

39. I Am Getting Better and Better

40. 'Ere the Parting Hour Go By

41. He Might Enjoy the Things Which Others Understand

42. Fretted with Golden Fire

43. The More Difficult the Choice

44. Come Not Between the Dragon and His Wrath

45. It Is a Wise Father That Knows His Own Child

46. To Change What We Can

47. The Standing Is Slippery

48. Adverse Power Opposed in Dubious Battle

49. And Every Dog His Day

50. The Sure-Enwinding Arms of Cool-Enfolding Death

51. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Afterword

Glossary

Acknowledgments

About the Author

By Patrick Taylor

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

AN IRISH DOCTOR IN LOVE AND AT SEA

Copyright © 2015 by Ballybucklebo Stories Corp.

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Gregory Manchess

Photograph courtesy of the author

A Forge Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

www.tor-forge.com

Forge
®
is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Taylor, Patrick,

    An Irish doctor in love and at sea: an Irish Country novel / by Patrick Taylor. — First Edition.

        p. cm. — (Irish Country books; 10)

    “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

    ISBN 978-0-7653-7820-0 (hardback)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-6038-4 (e-book)

   1.  O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   2.  Physicians—Fiction.   3.  Country life—Northern Ireland—Fiction.   4.  Medical fiction.   I.  Title.

    PR9199.3.T36I763 2015

    813'.54—dc23

2015023331

e-ISBN 9781466860384

Our e-books may be purchased in bulk for promotional, educational, or business use. Please contact the Macmillan Corporate and Premium Sales Department at (800) 221-7945, extension 5442, or by e-mail at
[email protected]
.

First Edition: October 2015

Other books

What's Your Poison? by S.A. Welsh
Terms of Surrender by Gracie C. Mckeever
Rendezvous in Cannes by Bohnet, Jennifer
Bathing Beauty by Andrea Dale
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
A wasteland of strangers by Pronzini, Bill
Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson
Murder on the Moor by C. S. Challinor