“I know it is over, over! I know it is over at last! Down sail! the sheathed anchor uncover, For the stress of the voyage has passed. Life, like a tempest of ocean, Hath outbreathed its ultimate blast; There’s but a faint sobbing seaward, While the calm of the tide deepens leeward; And, behold! like the welcoming quiver Of heart-pulses throbbed through the river. Those lights in the harbor at last; The heavenly harbor at last!” Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882). =Har´bothel= (_Master Fabian_), the squire of Sir Aymer de Valence.—Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.). =Hard Times,= a novel by C. Dickens (1854), dramatized in 1867 under the titlef of _Under the Earth_ or _The Sons of Toil_. Bounderby, a street Arab, raised himself to banker and cotton prince. When 55 years of age, he proposed marriage to Louisa, daughter of Thomas Gradgrind, Esq., J.P., and was accepted. One night the bank was robbed of £150, and Bounderby believed Stephen Blackpool to be the thief, because he had dismissed him, being obnoxious to the mill hands; but the culprit was Tom Gradgrind, the banker’s brother-in-law, who lay _perdu_ for a while, and then escaped out of the country. In the dramatized version, the bank was not robbed at all, but Tom merely removed the money to another drawer for safe custody. =Hardcastle= (_Squire_), a jovial, prosy, but hospitable country gentleman of the old school. He loves to tell his long-winded stories about Prince Eugene and the duke of Marlborough. He says, “I love everything that’s old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine,” and he might have added, “old stories.” _Mrs. Hardcastle_, a very “genteel” lady indeed. Mr. Hardcastle is her second husband, and Tony Lumpkin her son by her former husband. She is fond of “genteel” society, and the last fashions. Mrs. Hardcastle says, “There’s nothing in the world I love to talk of so much as London and the fashions, though I was never there myself.” She, foolishly mistaking her husband for a highwayman, and imploring him on her knees to take their watches, money, all they have got, but to spare their lives: “Here, good gentleman, whet your rage upon me, take my money, my life, but spare my child!” is infinitely comic. The princess, like Mrs. Hardcastle, was jolted to a jelly.—Lord W.P. Lennox, _Celebrities_, i. 1. _Miss Hardcastle_, the pretty, bright-eyed, lively daughter of Squire Hardcastle. She is in love with young Marlow, and “stoops” to a pardonable deceit “to conquer” his bashfulness and win him.—Goldsmith, _She Stoops to Conquer_ (1773). =Hardie= (_Mr._), a young lawyer, in the introduction of Sir W. Scott’s _Heart of Midlothian_ (1818).