IDES TO CAMYLOTT 119

XI. "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN--IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN!" 133

XII. IN WHICH IS SOLD A PORTRAIT 141

XIII. "YOUR--GRACE!" 158

XIV. "FOR ALL HER YOUTH--THERE IS NO OTHER WOMAN LIKE HER" 179

XV. "AND 'TWAS THE TOWN RAKE AND BEAUTY--SIR JOHN OXON" 190

XVI. A RUMOUR 197

XVII. AS HUGH DE MERTOUN RODE 217

XVIII. A NIGHT IN WHICH MY LORD DUKE DID NOT SLEEP 235

XIX. "THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE--" 248

XX. AT CAMYLOTT 261

XXI. UPON THE MOOR 274

XXII. MY LADY DUNSTANWOLDE IS WIDOWED 299

XXIII. HER LADYSHIP RETURNS TO TOWN 319

XXIV. SIR JOHN OXON RETURNS ALSO 337

XXV. TO-MORROW 351

XXVI. A DEAD ROSE 363

XXVII. "'TWAS THE NIGHT THOU HIDST THE PACKAGE IN THE WALL" 381

XXVIII. SIR JOHN RIDES OUT OF TOWN 394

XXIX. AT THE COW AT WICKBEN 405

XXX. ON TYBURN HILL 423

XXXI. THEIR GRACES KEEP THEIR WEDDING DAY AT CAMYLOTT 440

XXXII. IN THE TURRET CHAMBER--AND IN CAMYLOTT WOOD 457

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'From this night all men shall kneel--all men on whom I
deign to cast my eyes'" _Frontispiece_

FACING
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"Your Grace, it is this lady who is to do me the great
honour of becoming my Lady Dunstanwolde" 232

HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE

_CHAPTER I_

_The Fifth Day of April, 1676_

Upon the village of Camylott there had rested since the earliest peep
of dawn a hush of affectionate and anxious expectancy, the very
plough-boys going about their labours without boisterous laughter, the
children playing quietly, and the good wives in