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Title: The Lovely Lady

Author: Mary Austin

Illustrator: Gordon Grant

Release Date: January 14, 2007 [EBook #20359]

Language: English

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Four typographical errors have been corrected:
Page 88, "seemes" changed to "seems" (it seems such a wasteful way
to live somehow,)
Page 162, "Ellen" changed to "Ellen," ("I'm very glad you feel that way
about it, Ellen,")
Page 199, "accomodating" changed to "accommodating" (He felt his mind
accommodating to)
Page 252, "Weatherall" changed to "Weatheral" (Mr. Weatheral had some
papers)

THE LOVELY LADY

_By the same author_

A WOMAN OF GENIUS

THE ARROW MAKER

THE GREEN BOUGH

CHRIST IN ITALY

[Illustration: _"It was one thin web of rose and gold over lakes of
burnished light...."_]

THE LOVELY LADY

BY MARY AUSTIN

[Illustration: ]

_Frontispiece by Gordon Grant_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1913

_Copyright, 1913, by_

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into Foreign Languages,
including the Scandinavian._

To

J. AND E.

THE COMPANIONS OF THE GONDOLA

CONTENTS

PAGE

PART ONE

In which Peter meets a Dragon, and the Lovely
Lady makes her appearance. 3

PART TWO

In which Peter becomes invisible on the way to
growing rich. 37

PART THREE

In which Peter becomes a bachelor. 59

PART FOUR

In which the Lovely Lady makes a final appearance.