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A Lady of Quality
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Title: A Lady of Quality
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: March 24, 2005 [eBook #1550]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1896 Frederick Warne & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
A LADY OF QUALITY
Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Were Nature just to Man from his first hour, he need not ask for Mercy; then 'tis for us--the toys of Nature--to be both just and merciful, for so only can the wrongs she does be undone.
CHAPTER I
--The twenty-fourth day of November 1690On 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. This morning it was more so than usual, for he had guests with him who had