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Title: His Grace of Osmonde
Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation
of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title
of A Lady of Quality

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Release Date: April 18, 2005 [EBook #15651]

Language: English

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HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE

[Illustration: "'From this night all men shall kneel--all men on whom I
deign to cast my eyes'"--_See p_ 187]

HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE

BEING THE PORTIONS OF THAT NOBLEMAN'S LIFE
OMITTED IN THE RELATION OF HIS LADY'S
STORY PRESENTED TO THE WORLD OF
FASHION UNDER THE TITLE OF A
LADY OF QUALITY

BY

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1914

1897, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

_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_.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FIFTH DAY OF APRIL, 1676 1

II. "HE IS THE KING" 13

III. SIR JEOFFRY WILDAIRS 26

IV. "GOD HAVE MERCY ON ITS EVIL FORTUNES" 35

V. MY LORD MARQUESS PLUNGES INTO THE THAMES 55

VI. "NO; SHE HAS NOT YET COME TO COURT" 65

VII. "'TIS CLO WILDAIRS, MAN--ALL THE COUNTY KNOWS THE VIXEN" 77

VIII. IN WHICH MY LADY BETTY TANTILLION WRITES OF A SCANDAL 92

IX. SIR JOHN OXON LAYS A WAGER AT CRIBB'S COFFEE HOUSE 107

X. MY LORD MARQUESS R