A Lady of Quality
A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett is available here as the complete text, split into 717 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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 Frances Hodgson Burnett. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1550.
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- Chapter I The twenty-fourth day of November 1690
- Chapter II In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
- Chapter III Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast
- Chapter IV Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
- Chapter VII 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter 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 end
- Chapter XII Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of
- Chapter XIII Wherein a deadly war begins
- Chapter XIV Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil,
- Chapter XV In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost
- Chapter XVI Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
- Chapter XVII Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France
- Chapter XVIII My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes
- Chapter XIX A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in
- Chapter XX A noble marriage
- Chapter XXI An heir is born
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII "In One who will do justice, and demands that it shall be
- Chapter XXIV
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