_Hardie_ (_Alfred_), lover of Julia Dodd, in Charles Reade’s _Very Hard Cash_. His father, _Richard Hardie_, wealthy and fraudulent banker, cheats _David Dodd_, Julia’s father, of £14,000, and hinders his son’s marriage to the daughter of his victim by every means in his power, going so far as to shut him up in an insane asylum on what was to have been his wedding-day.—Charles Reade, _Very Hard Cash_. =Hardouin= (_2 syl._). Jean Hardouin, the jesuit, was librarian to Louis XIV. He doubted the truth of all received history; denied that the _Æne´id_ was the work of Virgil, or the _Odes_ of Horace the production of that poet; placed no credence in medals and coins; regarded all councils before that of Trent as chimerical; and looked on all Jansenists as infidels (1646-1729). =Hardy= (_Mr._), father of Letitia. A worthy little fellow enough, but with the unfortunate gift of “foreseeing” everything (act v. 4). _Letitia Hardy_, his daughter, the _fiancée_ of Dor´icourt. A girl of great spirit and ingenuity, beautiful and clever. Doricourt dislikes her without knowing her, simply because he has been betrothed to her by his parents; but she wins him by stratagem. She first assumes the airs and manners of a raw country hoyden, and disgusts the fastidious man of fashion. She then appears at a masquerade, and wins him by her many attractions. The marriage is performed at midnight, and, till the ceremony is over, Doricourt has no suspicion that the fair masquerader is his affianced, Miss Hardy.—Mrs. Cowley, _The Belle’s Stratagem_ (1780). =Harding= (_Mr._), gentle warden of Barchester almshouse; precentor and rector of St. Cuthbert’s. Harried nearly out of his sober wits by newspaper persecution.—Anthony Trollope, _The Warden_ and _Barchester Towers_. =Haredale= (_Geoffrey_), brother of Reuben, the uncle of Emma Haredale. He was a papist, and incurred the malignant hatred of Gashford (Lord George Gordon’s secretary) by exposing him in Westminster Hall. Geoffrey Haredale killed Sir John Chester in a duel, but made good his escape, and ended his days in a monastery. _Reuben Haredale_, (_2 syl._), brother of Geoffrey, and father of Emma Haredale. He was murdered. _Emma Haredale_, daughter of Reuben, and niece of Geoffrey, with whom she lived at “The Warren.” Edward Chester entertained a _tendresse_ for Emma Haredale.—C. Dickens, _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841). =Harefoot= (_Harold_). So Harold I. was called because he was swift of foot as a hare (1035-1040). =Hargrave=, a man of fashion. The hero and title of a novel by Mrs. Trollope (1843). =Harley=, “the man of feeling.” A man of the finest sensibilities and unbounded benevolence, but bashful as a maiden.—Mackenzie, _The Man of Feeling_ (1771). The principal object of Mackenzie is ... to reach and sustain a tone of moral pathos by representing the effect of incidents ... upon the human mind, ... especially those which are just, honorable, and intelligent.—Sir W. Scott.