Lady of Quality

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Genres:
Historical fiction
Languages:
English
Provider: Librivox
Price: $0.00
Rating:
3

Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Chapters

00 - Preface

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01 - Chapter I -- The twenty-fourth day of November 1690

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02 - Chapter II -- In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring

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03 - Chapter III -- Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast

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04 - Chapter IV -- Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night

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05 - Chapter V -- 'Not I,' said she. 'There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.'

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06 - ChapterVI -- Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature

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07 - Chapter VII -- 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon

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08 - Chapter VIII -- Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man

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09 -Chapter IX -- 'I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul -- myself'

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10 - Chapter X -- 'Yes -- I have marked him'

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11 - Chapter XI -- Wherein a noble life comes to an end

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12 - 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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13 - Chapter XIII -- Wherein a deadly war begins

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14 - 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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15 - Chapter XV -- In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost

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16 - Chapter XVI -- Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour

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17 - Chapter XVII -- Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France

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18 - Chapter XVIII -- My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes

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19 - Chapter XIX -- A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in

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20 - Chapter XX -- A noble marriage

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21 - Chapter XXI -- An heir is born

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22 - Chapter XXII -- Mother Anne

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23 - 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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24 - Chapter XXIV -- The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed

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