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A novel, 1896

A Lady of Quality

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Clorinda Wildairs grows up neglected after her mother dies giving birth to her.

24 chapters · about 6 hours

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How it begins

On a wintry morning at the close of 1690, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall; Sir Jeoffry being about to go forth a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric temper and big, loud voice, and given to oaths and noise even when in good-humour, his riding forth with his friends at any time was attended with boisterous commotion.

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About the book

Length

24 chapters

First published

1896

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Contents

  1. Chapter 1: The twenty-fourth day of November 169010 min
  2. Chapter 2: In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring14 min
  3. Chapter 3: Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast12 min
  4. Chapter 4: Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night15 min
  5. Chapter 5: "Not I," said she. "There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out."14 min
  6. Chapter 6: Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature16 min
  7. Chapter 7: 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon13 min
  8. Chapter 8: Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man20 min
  9. Chapter 9: "I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul—myself"9 min
  10. Chapter 10: "Yes—I have marked him"11 min
  11. Chapter 11: Wherein a noble life comes to an end19 min
  12. Chapter 12: Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady's widowhood, and of her return to town10 min
  13. Chapter 13: Wherein a deadly war begins18 min
  14. Chapter 14: Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France20 min
  15. Chapter 15: In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost16 min
  16. Chapter 16: Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour17 min
  17. Chapter 17: Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France17 min
  18. Chapter 18: My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes7 min
  19. Chapter 19: A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in15 min
  20. Chapter 20: A noble marriage10 min
  21. Chapter 21: An heir is born16 min
  22. Chapter 22: Mother Anne6 min
  23. Chapter 23: "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"12 min
  24. Chapter 24: The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed15 min

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