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  1. A LADY OF QUALITY
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  3. Contents
  4. A Lady of Quality
  5. Chapter I - The Twenty-Fourth Day of November 1690
  6. Chapter II - In Which Sir Jeoffry Encounters His Offspring
  7. Chapter III - Wherein Sir Jeoffry's Boon Companions Drink a Toast
  8. Chapter IV - Lord Twemlow's Chaplain Visits His Patron's Kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda Shines on Her Birthday Night
  9. Chapter V - "Not I," Said She "there Thou Mayst Trust Me I Would Not Be Found Out"
  10. Chapter VI - Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered a Miniature
  11. Chapter VII - 'Twas the Face of Sir John Oxon the Moon Shone Upon
  12. Chapter VIII - Two Meet in the Deserted Rose Garden, and the Old Earl of Dunstanwolde is Made a Happy Man
  13. Chapter IX - "I Give to Him the Thing He Craves with All His Soul—Myself"
  14. Chapter X - "Yes—I Have Marked Him"
  15. Chapter XI - Wherein a Noble Life Comes to an End
  16. Chapter XII - Which Treats of the Obsequies of My Lord of Dunstanwolde, of His Lady's Widowhood, and of Her Return to Town
  17. Chapter XIII - Wherein a Deadly War Begins
  18. Chapter XIV - Containing the History of the Breaking of the Horse Devil, and Relates the Returning of His Grace of Osmonde from France
  19. Chapter XV - In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again a Trophy He Had Lost
  20. Chapter XVI - Dealing with that Which was Done in the Panelled Parlour
  21. Chapter XVII - Wherein His Grace of Osmonde's Courier Arrives from France
  22. Chapter XVIII - My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone and Writes
  23. Chapter XIX - A Piteous Story is Told, and the Old Cellars Walled In
  24. Chapter XX - A Noble Marriage
  25. Chapter XXI - An Heir is Born
  26. Chapter XXII - Mother Anne
  27. 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"
  28. Chapter XXIV - The Doves Sate Upon the Window-Ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed

"No," quoth Mistress Clorinda quite carelessly, as she once more turned to the contents of the oaken wardrobe; "but I thought I missed a trinket I was wearing for a wager, and I would not lose it before the bet is won."

"Sister," ventured Anne before she left her and went away to her own dull world in the west wing, "there is a thing I can do if you will allow me. I can mend your tapestry hangings which have holes in them. I am quick at my needle, and should love to serve you in such poor ways as I can; and it is not seemly that they should be so worn. All things about you should be beautiful and well kept."

"Can you make these broken things beautiful?" said Clorinda. "Then indeed you shall. You may come here to mend them when you will."

"They are very fine hangings, though so old and ill cared for," said Anne, looking up at them; "and I shall be only too happy sitting here thinking of all you are doing while I am at my work."

"Thinking of all I am doing?" laughed Mistress Clorinda. "That would give you such wondrous things to dream of, Anne, that you would have no time for your needle, and my hangings would stay as they are."

"I can think and darn also," said Mistress Anne, "so I will come."

Chapter VII - 'Twas the Face of Sir John Oxon the Moon Shone Upon

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