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A Lady of Quality

  
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CHAPTER I THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR 1685
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CHAPTER II IN WHICH SIR JEOFFRY ENCOUNTERS HIS OFFSPRING
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CHAPTER III WHEREIN SIR JEOFFRY'S BOON COMPANIONS DRINK A TOAST
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CHAPTER IV LORD TWEMLOW'S CHAPLAIN VISITS HIS PATRON'S KINSMAN, AND MISTRESS CLORINDA SHINES ON HER BIRTHDAY NIGHT
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CHAPTER V "NOT I, SHE SAID. "THERE THOU MAYEST TRUST ME. I WOULD NOT BE FOUND OUT"
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CHAPTER VI RELATING HOW MISTRESS ANNE DISCOVERED A MINIATURE
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CHAPTER VII 'TWAS THE FACE OF SIR JOHN OXON THE MOON SHONE UPON
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CHAPTER VIII TWO MEET IN THE DESERTED ROSE-GARDEN, AND THE OLD EARL OF DUNSTANWOLDE IS MADE A HAPPY MAN
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CHAPTER IX "I GIVE TO HIM THE THING HE CRAVES WITH ALL HIS SOUL—MYSELF
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CHAPTER X I HAVE MARRED HIM
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CHAPTER XI WHEREIN A NOBLE LIFE COMES TO AN END
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CHAPTER XII WHICH TREATS OF THE OBSEQUIES OF MY LORD OF DUNSTANWOLDE, OF HIS LADY'S WIDOWHOOD, AND OF HER RETURN TO TOWN
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CHAPTER XIII WHEREIN A DEADLY WAR BEGINS
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CHAPTER XIV CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE BREAKING OF THE HORSE DEVIL, AND RELATES THE RETURNING OF HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE FROM FRANCE
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CHAPTER XV IN WHICH SIR JOHN OXON FINDS AGAIN A TROPHY HE HAD LOST
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CHAPTER XVI DEALING WITH THAT WHICH WAS DONE IN THE PANELED PARLOR
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CHAPTER XVII WHEREIN HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE'S COURIER ARRIVES FROM FRANCE
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CHAPTER XVIII MY LADY DUNSTANWOLDE SITS LATE ALONE AND WRITES
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CHAPTER XIX A PITEOUS STORY IS TOLD, AND THE OLD CELLARS WALLED IN
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CHAPTER XX A NOBLE MARRIAGE
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CHAPTER XXI AN HEIR IS BORN
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CHAPTER XXII MOTHER ANNE
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CHAPTER XXIII "IN ONE WHO WILL DO JUSTICE, AND DEMANDS THAT IT SHALL BE DONE TO EACH THING HE HAS MADE, BY EACH WHO BEARS HIS IMAGE"
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CHAPTER XXIV THE DOVES SAT UPON THE WINDOW-LEDGE AND LOWLY COOED AND COOED

  
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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A LADY OF QUALITY

Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the world of Fashion through the pages of The Tattler, and now for the first time written down

BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

ILLUSTRATED P.F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
Copyright 1896 by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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