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Title: Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: January 5, 2009 [eBook #27712]

Language: English

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SIR HARRY HOTSPUR OF HUMBLETHWAITE.

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE,

Author of "Framley Parsonage," etc.

London:
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers,
13, Great Marlborough Street.
1871

The right of Translation is reserved.

London:
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers,
Bread Street Hill.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. SIR HARRY HOTSPUR.
CHAPTER II. OUR HEROINE.
CHAPTER III. LORD ALFRED'S COURTSHIP.
CHAPTER IV. VACILLATION.
CHAPTER V. GEORGE HOTSPUR.
CHAPTER VI. THE BALL IN BRUTON STREET.
CHAPTER VII. LADY ALTRINGHAM.
CHAPTER VIII. AIREY FORCE.
CHAPTER IX. "I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE."
CHAPTER X. MR. HART AND CAPTAIN STUBBER.
CHAPTER XI. MRS. MORTON.
CHAPTER XII. THE HUNT BECOMES HOT.
CHAPTER XIII. "I WILL NOT DESERT HIM."
CHAPTER XIV. PERTINACITY.
CHAPTER XV. COUSIN GEORGE IS HARD PRESSED.
CHAPTER XVI. SIR HARRY'S RETURN.
CHAPTER XVII. "LET US TRY."
CHAPTER XVIII. GOOD ADVICE.
CHAPTER XIX. THE NEW SMITHY.
CHAPTER XX. COUSIN GEORGE'S SUCCESS.
CHAPTER XXI. EMILY HOTSPUR'S SERMON.
CHAPTER XXII. GEORGE HOTSPUR YIELDS.
CHAPTER XXIII. "I SHALL NEVER BE MARRIED."
CHAPTER XXIV. THE END.

SIR HARRY HOTSPUR OF HUMBLETHWAITE.

CHAPTER I.

SIR HARRY HOTSPUR.

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland,
and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of
what sort the magnificence, which his position as a great English
commoner required of him. He had twenty thousand a year derived from
land. His forefathers had owned the same property in Cumberland for
nearly four centuries, and an estate nearly as large in Durham for
more than