Chapter I: Front Matter

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Ballantyne-Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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_THE STORY OF A LADY AND HER LOVER_

BY

M. O. W. OLIPHANT

AUTHOR OF ‘THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD’ ETC.

_NEW EDITION_

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1883

_All rights reserved_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 1

II. THE REST OF THE FAMILY 11

III. THE ‘GAME’ 22

IV. UNDER THE BEECHES 34

V. EXPLANATIONS 47

VI. GOOD-BYE 59

VII. CROSS-EXAMINATION 70

VIII. THE MEADOWLANDS’ PARTY 83

IX. COSMO 94

X. FAMILY COUNSELS 108

XI. PROJECTS OF MARRIAGE 121

XII. MISTRESS AND MAID 134

XIII. HEATHCOTE MOUNTFORD 146

XIV. THE SPECTATOR’S VIEW 160

XV. TAMPERING WITH A LAWYER 171

XVI. GOOD ADVICE 184

XVII. THE ABSOLUTE AND THE COMPARATIVE 198

XVIII. AFTERTHOUGHTS 211

XIX. THE CATASTROPHE 228

XX. THE WILL 239

XXI. WHEN ALL WAS OVER 252

XXII. SOPHISTRY 268

XXIII. HEATHCOTE’S PROPOSAL 279

XXIV. A VISITOR 292

XXV. PACKING UP 307

XXVI. GOING AWAY 318

XXVII. A NEW BEGINNING 331

XXVIII. HEATHCOTE’S CAREER 342

XXIX. CHARLEY INTERFERES 356

XXX. THE RECTOR SATISFIED 370

XXXI. FALLEN FROM HER HIGH ESTATE 383

XXXII. ROSE ON HER DEFENCE 397

XXXIII. THE MAN OF THE PERIOD 414

XXXIV. THE HEIRESS’S TRIAL 422

XXXV. A SIMPLE WOMAN 442

XXXVI. THE LAST 456

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