The Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A Romance Read online

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  2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].

  THE COURTSHIP

  OF

  MORRICE BUCKLER

  THE COURTSHIP

  OF

  MORRICE BUCKLER

  A Romance

  _Being a Record of the Growth of an English Gentleman during the years 1685-1687, under strange and difficult circumstances written some while afterwards in his own hand, and now edited by_

  A. E. W. MASON AUTHOR OF "A ROMANCE OF WASTDALE"

  London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO. 1896

  _First Edition, February_, 1896. _Second Edition, May_, 1896. _Third Edition, June_, 1896.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER I.

  TELLS OF AN INTERRUPTED MESSAGE.

  CHAPTER II.

  I REACH LONDON, AND THERE MAKE AN ACQUAINTANCE.

  CHAPTER III.

  TELLS HOW I REACH BRISTOL, AND IN WHAT STRANGE GUISE I GO TO MEET MYFRIEND.

  CHAPTER IV.

  SIR JULIAN HARNWOOD.

  CHAPTER V.

  I JOURNEY TO THE TYROL, AND HAVE SOME DISCOURSE WITH COUNT LUKSTEIN.

  CHAPTER VI.

  SWORDS TAKE UP THE DISCOURSE.

  CHAPTER VII.

  I RETURN HOME AND HEAR NEWS OF COUNTESS LUKSTEIN.

  CHAPTER VIII.

  I MAKE A BOW TO COUNTESS LUKSTEIN.

  CHAPTER IX.

  I RENEW AN ACQUAINTANCESHIP.

  CHAPTER X.

  DOUBTS, PERPLEXITIES, AND A COMPROMISE.

  CHAPTER XI.

  THE COUNTESS EXPLAINS, AND SHOWS ME A PICTURE.

  CHAPTER XII.

  LADY TRACY.

  CHAPTER XIII.

  COUNTESS LUKSTEIN IS CONVINCED.

  CHAPTER XIV.

  A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK.

  CHAPTER XV.

  THE HALF-WAY HOUSE AGAIN.

  CHAPTER XVI.

  CONCERNING AN INVITATION AND A LOCKED DOOR.

  CHAPTER XVII.

  FATHER SPAUR.

  CHAPTER XVIII.

  AT LUKSTEIN.

  CHAPTER XIX.

  IN THE PAVILION. I EXPLAIN.

  CHAPTER XX.

  IN THE PAVILION. COUNTESS LUKSTEIN EXPLAINS.

  CHAPTER XXI.

  IN CAPTIVITY HOLLOW.

  CHAPTER XXII.

  A TALK WITH OTTO. I ESCAPE TO INNSPRUCK.

  CHAPTER XXIII.

  THE LAST.