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SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY:

ESSAYS FROM THE "SPECTATOR."

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

DAVID SALMON.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
LONG MANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16th STREET.

1887.

All rights reserved.

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INTRODUCTION

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE

1.

• I. SIR ROGER AND THE CLUB

7.

II. COVERLEY HALL

14.

• III. THE COVERLEY HOUSEHOLD

18

IV. THE COVERLEY GUEST

22

• V. THE COVERLEY LINEAGE

26

W. THE COVERLEY GHOST

31

VII. THE COVERLEY SABBATH

34

VIII. Sir ROGER IN LOVE

38

• IX. THE COVERLEY ECONOMY

44

dx. THE COVERLEY HUNT

47

1. THE COVERLEY WITCH .

54-

XII. A COVERLEY LOVE MATCH

58

AIII. THE COVERLEY ETIQUETTE

63:

XIV. THE COVERLEY DUCKS

66

XV. SIR ROGER ON THE BENCH

70

XVI. A STORY OF AN HEIR

75

XVII. SIR ROGER AND PARTY SPIRIT

81

XVIII. THE COVERLEY GIPSIES

· 85

XIX. A SUMMONS TO LONDON

88

• XX. FAREWELL TO COVERLEY HALL

92

, XXI. SIR ROGER IN LONDON .

96

XXII. SIR ROGER IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

100

XXIII. SIR, ROGER AT THE PLAY-HOUSE

. 105 -

XXIV. SIR ROGER AT VAUXHALL .

109

XXV. SIR ROGER, THE WIDOW, WILL HONEYCOMB, AND

MILTON

113

XXVI. SIR ROGER PASSETH AWAY

116