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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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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
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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.
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