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Harry Coverdale’s Courtship

by Frank E. Smedley

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Treats of the Philosophy of Life
  4. 4Chapter II — Affords a Specimen of Harry’s “Quiet Manner” With His…
  5. 5Chapter III — Hazlehurst Pleads His Cause and Wins It
  6. 6Chapter IV — Contains, Among Other “Exquisite” Sketches, a Portrait…
  7. 7Chapter V — Proves the Advisability of Looking Before You Leap
  8. 8Chapter VI — Jest and Earnest
  9. 9Chapter VII — Wherein Symptoms of Harry’s Courtship Begin to Appear…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Harry Condescends to Play the Agreeable
  11. 11Chapter IX — Contains Little Else Save Moonshine
  12. 12Chapter X — “Equo Ne Credite Teucri.” — (Virgil)
  13. 13Chapter XI — “Post Equitem Sedet Atra Cura.” — (Horace)
  14. 14Chapter XII — Harry Puts His Foot in It
  15. 15Chapter XIII — “Deeper and Deeper Still”
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Decidedly Embarrassing
  17. 17Chapter XV — Relates the Unexpected Benevolence of Horace D’Almayne
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Treats of Things in General
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Plotting and Counter-Plotting
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Alice’s First Introduction to Her Husband’s “Quiet…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — A Comedy of Errors
  22. 22Chapter XX — The Morning of the First of September
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Evening of the Same Day
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Kate Sows the Wind
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Advice Gratis
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — A Storm Brewing
  27. 27Chapter XXV — The Storm Bursts
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Atmosphere Remains Cloudy
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Pleasures of Keeping Up the Game
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Alice Succours the Distressed
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — How to Make Home Happy
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Introduces a Lordly Gallant
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Spiders and Flies
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — A Glimpse at the Green-Eyed Monster
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Telemachus and Mentor
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Circe
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Flowers and Thorns
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Arcadia in the Nineteenth Century
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — A Concession, and a “Partie Quarrée”
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — Some of the Joys of Our Dancing Days
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Arabella
  42. 42Chapter XL — Deeper and Deeper Still
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Advice Gratis
  44. 44Chapter XLII — L’Embarras des Richesses
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Eating Whitebait
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Lord Alfred Courtland Sows a Few Wild Oats
  47. 47Chapter XLV — The Overture to Don Pasquale
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — Kate Begins to Reap the Whirlwind
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — A Glimpse at the Cloven Foot
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — Magnanimity
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Alice Perceives the Error of Her Ways
  52. 52Chapter L — The Letter
  53. 53Chapter LI — Othello Visits Cassio
  54. 54Chapter LII — A Gleam of Light
  55. 55Chapter LIII — After the Manner of “Bell’s Life”
  56. 56Chapter LIV — Settling Preliminaries
  57. 57Chapter LV — The Race
  58. 58Chapter LVI — The Catastrophe
  59. 59Chapter LVII — An Anonymous Letter
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — Diamond Cut Diamond
  61. 61Chapter LIX — Horace Weathers the Storm
  62. 62Chapter LX — Anxiety
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Alice Appoints Her Successor
  64. 64Chapter LXII — Mrs. Coverdale Thinks Better of It
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — Lord Alfred Severs His Leading Strings
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — D’Almayne Plays His Last Card
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Settles Everybody and Everything

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