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The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

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Charles Lever

Charles Lever
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Born: August 31, 1806
Died: June 1, 1872 (aged 65)
Bio: Charles James Lever was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.
Known for:
  1. The knight of Gwynne (1809)
  2. The confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1839)
  3. Charles O'Malley (1840)
  4. Roland Cashel (1848)
  5. The fortunes of Glencore (1857)

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