A Lady of Quality

author：Frances Hodgson Burnett
The latest chapter：The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed
A Lady of Quality online read for free
Book description：A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's Other books：The White People / The Dawn of A To-morrow / Sara Crewe / A Little Princess / The Lost Prince / The Secret Garden / Little Lord Fauntleroy /

  • Preface
  • The twenty-fourth day of November 1690
  • In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
  • Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast
  • Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday
  • "Not I," said she. "There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out."
  • Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
  • 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
  • Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man
  • "I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul-- myself"
  • "Yes--I have marked him"
  • Wherein a noble life comes to an end
  • Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady's widowhood, and of her retur
  • Wherein a deadly war begins
  • Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of
  • In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost
  • Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
  • Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France
  • My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes
  • A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in
  • A noble marriage
  • An heir is born
  • Mother Anne
  • "In One who will do justice, and demands that it shall be done to each thing He has made, by each w
  • The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed