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 Rides 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 |