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CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
A tragical Resolution.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
In which the Story begins over again.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
Containing what will terrify the Reader.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
Which dismisses the Reader.
DAMON
AND
DELIA.
CHAPTER I.
Containing introductory matter.
The races at Southampton have, for time immemorial, constituted a scene of rivalship, war, and envy. All the passions incident to the human frame have here assumed as true a scope, as in the more noisy and more tragical contentions of statesmen and warriors. Here nature has displayed her most hidden attractions, and art has furnished out the artillery of beauty. Here the coquet has surprised, and the love-sick nymph has sapped the heart of the unwary swain. The scene has been equally sought by the bolder and more haughty, as by the timid sex. Here the foxhunter has sought a new subject of his boast in the nonchalance of dishabille < previous next >