FAIRSERVICE 
 
 
baronet by Charles II. The wooer was a 
Mr. Child, son of a brewer at Abingdon, 
to whom the lady sent a challenge. 
      Having read this strange relation, 
      He was in a consternation; 
      But, advising with a friend, 
      He persuades him to attend: 
      "Be of courage and make ready, 
      Faint heart never won fair lady." 
              Quarterly Review, evi. 205--245. 
 
  Faint Heart never Won Fair Lady, name 
of a petit comedie brought out by Mde. 
Vestris at the Olympic. Mde. Vestris her- 
self performed the part of the "fair lady." 
 
  Fair Penitent (The) a tragedy by 
Rowe (1703). Calista was daughter of 
Lord Sciol'to (3 syl.), and bride of Lord 
Al'tamont.   It was discovered on   the 
wedding-day that she had been seduced by 
Lotha'rio. This led to a duel between the 
bridegroom and the libertine, in which 
Lothario was killed; a street riot ensued, 
in which Sciolto receives his death-wound; 
and Calista, "the fair penitent," stabbed 
herself. The drama is a mere richauffi of 
Massinger's Fatal Dowry. 
 
  Fairbrother (Mr.), counsel of Effie 
Deans at the trial.-Sir W. Scott, Heart of 
Midlothian (time, George II.). 
 
  Fairfax (Thomas, lord), father of the 
duchess of Buckingham.-Sir W. Scott, 
Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.). 
 
  Fairfax (Rutherford). Young man born 
of a line of brave men, who is conscious 
that early petting at home and a foreign 
education have developed physical coward- 
ice. On his way home from England he 
falls into the hands of desperadoes who 
force him to fire a pistol at a bound man. 
The lad is almost fainting, and swoons 
with pain and horror when the deed is, as 
 
 
he thinks, done. His father believes him 
a coward, and the sense of this and a lov- 
ing woman's trust in him, nerve him to 
deeds of endurance and valor that clear 
his record triumphantly.-Octave Thanet, 
Expiation (1890). 
 
  Fairfield, the miller, and father of 
Patty "the maid of the mill." An honest, 
straightforward man, grateful and modest. 
-Bickerstaff, The Maid    of  the Mill 
(1647). 
 
  Fairford (Mr. Alexander or Saunders), 
a lawyer. 
  Allan Fairford, a young barrister, son 
of Saunders, and a friend of Darsie Lati- 
mer. He marries Lilias Redgauntlet, sis- 
ter of Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet, 
called "Darsie Latimer." 
  Peter Fairford, Allan's cousin.-Sir W. 
Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.). 
 
  Fairleigh (Frank), the pseudonym of 
F. E. Smedley, editor of Sharpe's London 
Magazine (1848, 1849).  It was in this 
magazine that Smedley's two novels, Frank 
Fairleigh and Louis Arundel were first 
published. 
 
  Fairlimb, sister of Bitelas, and daugh- 
ter of Rukenaw the ape, in the beast-epic 
called Reynard the Fox (1498). 
 
 
  Fair Maid of Perth. 
Scott's novel of same name. 
 
 
Heroine of 
 
 
  Fair'scrieve (2 syl.), clerk of Mr. James 
Middleburgh, a magistrate of Edinburgh. 
-Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, 
George II.). 
 
  Fairservice (Mr.), a magistrate's clerk. 
-Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, 
George II.). 
 
 
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