A Lady of Quality

About this eBook

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

Title

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 Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down

Credits

Transcribed from the 1896 Frederick Warne & Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Nobility -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1550

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1550

Release Date

December 1, 1998

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A LADY OF QUALITY
2. 2.CHAPTER I—The twenty-fourth day of November 1690
3. 3.CHAPTER II—In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
4. 4.CHAPTER III—Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s boon companions drink a toast
5. 5.CHAPTER IV—Lord Twemlow’s chaplain visits his patron’s kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night
6. 6.CHAPTER V—“Not I,” said she. “There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.”
7. 7.CHAPTER VI—Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
8. 8.CHAPTER VII—’Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII—Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man
10. 10.CHAPTER IX—“I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul—myself”
11. 11.CHAPTER X—“Yes—I have marked him”
12. 12.CHAPTER XI—Wherein a noble life comes to an end
13. 13.CHAPTER XII—Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady’s widowhood, and of her return to town
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII—Wherein a deadly war begins
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV—Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France
16. 16.CHAPTER XV—In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI—Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII—Wherein his Grace of Osmonde’s courier arrives from France
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII—My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX—A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in
21. 21.CHAPTER XX—A noble marriage
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI—An heir is born
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII—Mother Anne
24. 24.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”
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV—The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed

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