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Project Gutenberg's Love Romances of the Aristocracy, by Thornton Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Love Romances of the Aristocracy Author: Thornton Hall Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14193] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE ROMANCES OF THE ARISTOCRACY *** Produced by Dave Morgan and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. LOVE ROMANCES OF THE ARISTOCRACY By THORNTON HALL, F.S.A. BARRISTER-AT-LAW AUTHOR OF "LOVE INTRIGUES OF ROYAL COURTS," ETC. ETC. ILLUSTRATED LONDON T. WERNER LAURIE CLIFFORD'S INN [Illustration: ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF HAMILTON] _TO_ MRS TOM HESKETH _L'amitie est l'amour sans ailes_ PREFACE My object in writing this book has been to present as many phases as possible of the strangely romantic story of the British Peerage, so that those who have not the time or facilities for exploring the library of books over which these stories are scattered, may be able, within the compass of a single volume, to review the panorama of our aristocracy, with its tragedy and comedy, its romance and pathos, its foibles and its follies, in a few hours of what I sincerely hope will prove agreeable reading. If my book gives to any reader a fraction of the pleasure I have derived from its writing, I shall be more than rewarded for a labour which has been to me a delight. THORNTON HALL. _As love plays a prominent part in at least twenty of these stones, and is only really absent from one or two of them, I venture to hope that my good friends, the reviewers, who have been so kind to my previous books, will not find fault with my title, which, more accurately than any other I can think of, describes the nature and scope of my book_. T.H. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. A PRINCESS OF PRUDES 1 II. THE NIGHTINGALE OF BATH 21 III. THE ROMANCE OF THE VILLIERS 36 IV. THE STAIN ON THE SHIRLEY 'SCUTCHEON 51 V. A GHOSTLY VISITANT 62 VI. A MESSALINA OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 74 VII. A PROFLIGATE
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