Direct Verzonden The House by the Churchyard (Doughty Library) – Sheridan Le Fanu

We are going to talk if you please in the ensuing chapters of what was going on in Chapelizod about a hundred years ago. A hundred years to be sure is a good while; but though fashions have changed some old phrases dropped out and new ones come in; and snuff and hair-powder and sacques and solitaires quite passed away…’ (Excerpt from Prologue)