Produced by Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) HARRINGTON: A STORY OF TRUE LOVE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “WHAT CHEER,” “THE GHOST: A CHRISTMAS STORY,” “A TALE OF LYNN,” ETC. “Herein may be seen noble chivalrye, curtosye, humanyte, friendlyenesse, hardyenesse, love, friendshype, cowardyse, murder, hate, vertue and synne. Doo after the good, and leve the evyl, and it shall brynge you to good fame and renomme.”—SIR THOMAS MALORY: _Preface to Morte D’Arthur_. BOSTON: THAYER & ELDRIDGE, 114 & 116 WASHINGTON STREET. 1860. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by THAYER & ELDRIDGE, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court, of the District of Massachusetts. W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper. I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY WIFE. CONTENTS. PAGE PROLOGUE, 7 CHAPTER I.—THE REIGN OF TERROR, 69 II.—THE FENCING SCHOOL, 81 III.—QUARTE AND TIERCE, 90 IV.—MURIEL AND EMILY, 116 V.—LA BOSTONIENNE, 127 VI.—AN EPISODE OF THE REIGN OF TERROR, 138 VII.—ROUX, 146 VIII.—THE SHADOW OF THE HUNTER, 163 IX.—SCHOLAR AND SOLDIER, 173 X.—CONVERSATION, 181 XI.—NORTH AND SOUTH, 191 XII.—STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS, 210 XIII.—THE FAIRY PRINCE, 228 XIV.—THE ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, 240 XV.—WAR AND PEACE, 252 XVI.—THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON, 268 XVII.—NOCTURNAL, 276 XVIII.—THE PRETTY PASS THINGS CAME TO, 290 XIX.—THE ROAR OF ST. DOMINGO, 302 XX.—EXPLANATIONS, 316 XXI.—THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL, 328 XXII.—INTERSTITIAL, 340 XXIII.—THE BLOOMING OF THE LILY, 349 XXIV.—THE BLOWING OF THE ROSE, 358 XXV.—WITHERLEE, 376 XXVI.—A MAN OF RUINED BLOOD, 402