Harry Coverdale's Courtship, and All That Came of It
“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
Frank E. Smedley
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1854
PREFACE
HARRY COVERDALE’S COURTSHIP, AND ALL THAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER I.—TREATS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
CHAPTER III.—HAZLEHURST PLEADS HIS CAUSE AND WINS IT.
CHAPTER V.—PROVES THE ADVISABILITY OF LOOKING BEFORE YOU LEAP.
CHAPTER VI.—JEST AND EARNEST.
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.
CHAPTER XVI.—TREATS OF THINGS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER XVII.—PLOTTING AND COUNTER-PLOTTING.
CHAPTER XIX.—A COMEDY OF ERRORS.
CHAPTER XX.—THE MORNING OF THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.
CHAPTER XXI.—THE EVENING OF THE SAME DAY.
CHAPTER XXII.—KATE SOWS THE WIND.
CHAPTER XXIII.—ADVICE GRATIS.
CHAPTER XXIV.—A STORM BREWING.
CHAPTER XXV.—THE STORM BURSTS.
CHAPTER XXVI.—THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS CLOUDY.
CHAPTER XXVII.—THE PLEASURES OF KEEPING UP THE GAME.
CHAPTER XXVIII.—ALICE SUCCOURS THE DISTRESSED.
CHAPTER XXIX.—HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY.
CHAPTER XXX.—INTRODUCES A LORDLY GALLANT.
CHAPTER XXXI.—SPIDERS AND FLIES.
CHAPTER XXXII.—A GLIMPSE AT THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.
CHAPTER XXXIII.—TELEMACHUS AND MENTOR.
CHAPTER XXXIV.—CIRCE.
CHAPTER XXXV.—FLOWERS AND THORNS.
CHAPTER XXXVI.—ARCADIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER XXXVII.—A CONCESSION, AND A “PARTIE QUARRÉE.”
CHAPTER XXXVIII.—SOME OF THE JOYS OF OUR DANCING DAYS.
CHAPTER XXXIX.—ARABELLA.
CHAPTER XL.—DEEPER AND DEEPER STILL.
CHAPTER XLI.—ADVICE GRATIS.
CHAPTER XLII.—L’EMBARRAS DES RICHESSES.
CHAPTER XLIII.—EATING WHITEBAIT.
CHAPTER XLIV.—LORD ALFRED COURTLAND SOWS A FEW WILD OATS.
CHAPTER XLV.—THE OVERTURE TO DON PASQUALE.
CHAPTER XLVI.—KATE BEGINS TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND.
CHAPTER XLVII.—A GLIMPSE AT THE CLOVEN FOOT.
CHAPTER XLVIII.—MAGNANIMITY.
CHAPTER XLIX.—ALICE PERCEIVES THE ERROR OF HER WAYS.
CHAPTER L.—THE LETTER.
CHAPTER LI.—OTHELLO VISITS CASSIO.
CHAPTER LII.—A GLEAM OF LIGHT.
CHAPTER LIII.—AFTER THE MANNER OF “BELL’S LIFE.”
CHAPTER LIV.—SETTLING PRELIMINARIES.
CHAPTER LV.—THE RACE.
CHAPTER LVI.—THE CATASTROPHE.
CHAPTER LVII.—AN ANONYMOUS LETTER.
CHAPTER LVIII.—DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
CHAPTER LIX.—HORACE WEATHERS THE STORM.
CHAPTER LX.—ANXIETY.
CHAPTER LXI.—ALICE APPOINTS HER SUCCESSOR.
CHAPTER LXII.—MRS. COVERDALE THINKS BETTER OF IT.
CHAPTER LXIII.—LORD ALFRED SEVERS HIS LEADING STRINGS.
CHAPTER LXIV.—D’ALMAYNE PLAYS HIS LAST CARD.
CHAPTER LXV.—SETTLES EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING.
