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Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included.
- Chapters
- Preface
- 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 Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night
- Chapter V -- 'Not I,' said she. 'There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.'
- ChapterVI -- Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature
- Chapter VII -- 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon
- Chapter VIII -- Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man
- 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 his lady's widowhood, and of her return to town
- Chapter XIII -- Wherein a deadly war begins
- Chapter XIV -- Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France
- 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 -- Mother Anne
- 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'
- Chapter XXIV -- The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed