A Lady of QualityFront matterReading editionChapter navigation26 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterA LADY OF QUALITYChapter I · —The twenty-fourth day of November 1690Chapter II · —In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspringChapter III · —Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s boon companions drink a toastChapter IV · —Lord Twemlow’s chaplain visits his patron’s kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday nightChapter V · —“Not I,” said she. “There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.”Chapter VI · —Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniatureChapter VII · —’Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone uponChapter VIII · —Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy manChapter IX · —“I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul—myself”Chapter X · —“Yes—I have marked him”Chapter XI · —Wherein a noble life comes to an endChapter XII · —Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady’s widowhood, and of her return to townChapter XIII · —Wherein a deadly war beginsChapter XIV · —Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from FranceChapter XV · —In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lostChapter XVI · —Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled ParlourChapter XVII · —Wherein his Grace of Osmonde’s courier arrives from FranceChapter XVIII · —My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writesChapter XIX · —A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled inChapter XX · —A noble marriageChapter XXI · —An heir is bornChapter XXII · —Mother AnneChapter 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”Chapter XXIV · —The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooedBeginning of this editionNext chapter →A LADY OF QUALITYAll chapters and sections (26)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsA LADY OF QUALITYChapter I · —The twenty-fourth day of November 1690Chapter II · —In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspringChapter III · —Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s boon companions drink a toastChapter IV · —Lord Twemlow’s chaplain visits his patron’s kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday nightChapter V · —“Not I,” said she. “There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.”Chapter VI · —Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniatureChapter VII · —’Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone uponChapter VIII · —Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy manChapter IX · —“I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul—myself”Chapter X · —“Yes—I have marked him”Chapter XI · —Wherein a noble life comes to an endChapter XII · —Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady’s widowhood, and of her return to townChapter XIII · —Wherein a deadly war beginsChapter XIV · —Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from FranceChapter XV · —In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lostChapter XVI · —Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled ParlourChapter XVII · —Wherein his Grace of Osmonde’s courier arrives from FranceChapter XVIII · —My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writesChapter XIX · —A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled inChapter XX · —A noble marriageChapter XXI · —An heir is bornChapter XXII · —Mother AnneChapter 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”Chapter XXIV · —The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooedTranscribed from the 1896 Frederick Warne & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk◇A LADY OF QUALITY →