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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.