Produced by Charles Bowen from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/courtshipofmorri00masouoft 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 MY FRIEND. 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.