A Lady of Quality
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Preface
• The twenty-fourth day of November 1690
• In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
• Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast
• Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night
• "Not I," said she. "There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out."
• Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
• 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
• Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man
• "I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul-- myself"
• "Yes--I have marked him"
• Wherein a noble life comes to an end
• Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady's widowhood, and of her return to town
• Wherein a deadly war begins
• Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France
• In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost
• Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
• Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France
• My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes
• A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in
• A noble marriage
• An heir is born
• Mother Anne
• "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"
• The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed