A Story of Love and Sport,

BY

MRS. H. LOVETT CAMERON,

AUTHOR OF

"DECEIVERS EVER," "JULIET'S GUARDIAN," "VERA NEVILL,"
," "A NORTH-COUNTRY MAID,
"A DEAD PAST,"
"THE LODGE BY THE SEA, ETC., ETC.

GOLD,'

"PURE

"Come, I'll show you a country that none can surpass,
For a flyer to cross like a bird on the wing.

We have acres of woodland and oceans of grass;

We have game in the autumn and cubs in the spring;
We have scores of good fellows hang out in the Shires."

"And life is short, and love is life,
And so the tale is told."

WHYTE-MELVILLE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

F. V. WHITE & Co., 31, SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND, W.C.

1885.

256.e.1484

KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.;

AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.

Chapter the First.

FRED HARLOWE'S TROUBLES.

"Full little knowest thou that has not tried,
What hell it is in suing long to bide;

To loose good dayes that might be better spent,
To waste long nights in pensive discontent,
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow;
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
Unhappie wight, born to disastrous end,

That doth his life in so long tendance spend !

SPENSER.

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