HARRY COVERDALE’S COURTSHIP,
AND ALL THAT CAME OF IT
By Frank E. Smedley,
Author of “Frank Fairlegh,” “Lewis Arundel,” “The Fortunes Of The Colville Family,” Etc.
London: George Routledge and Sons
1854
“Those false alarms of strife,
Between the husband and the wife,
And little quarrels, often prove
To be but new recruits of love;
And tho’ some fit of small contest
Sometime fall out among the best,
That makes no breach of faith and love,
But rather (sometimes) serves t’improve.”
Butler.
CONTENTS
HARRY COVERDALE’S COURTSHIP, AND ALL THAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER I.—TREATS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
CHAPTER II.—AFFORDS A SPECIMEN OF HARRY’S “QUIET MANNER” WITH HIS TENANTRY.
CHAPTER III.—HAZLEHURST PLEADS HIS CAUSE AND WINS IT.
CHAPTER IV.—CONTAINS, AMONG OTHER “EXQUISITE” SKETCHES, A PORTRAIT OF A PUPPY (NOT BY LANDSEER).
CHAPTER V.—PROVES THE ADVISABILITY OF LOOKING BEFORE YOU LEAP.
CHAPTER VII.—WHEREIN SYMPTOMS OF HARRY’S COURTSHIP BEGIN TO APPEAR ON A STORMY HORIZON.
CHAPTER VIII.—HARRY CONDESCENDS TO PLAY THE AGREEABLE.
CHAPTER IX.—CONTAINS LITTLE ELSE SAVE MOONSHINE.
CHAPTER X.—“EQUO NE CREDITE TEUCRI.”—(Virgil)
CHAPTER XI.—“POST EQUITEM SEDET ATRA CURA.”—(Horace)
CHAPTER XII.—HARRY PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT.
CHAPTER XIII.—“DEEPER AND DEEPER STILL.”
CHAPTER XIV.—DECIDEDLY EMBARRASSING.
CHAPTER XV.—RELATES THE UNEXPECTED BENEVOLENCE OF HORACE D’ALMAYNE.