Transcriber's notes
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THE LOVELY LADY
By the same author
A Woman of Genius
The Arrow Maker
The Green Bough
Christ in Italy
THE LOVELY LADY
By Mary Austin
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
PAGEPart OneIn which Peter meets a Dragon, and the LovelyLady makes her appearance. 3Part TwoIn which Peter becomes invisible on the way togrowing rich. 37Part ThreeIn which Peter becomes a bachelor. 59Part FourIn which the Lovely Lady makes a final appearance. 107
ILLUSTRATIONS
"It was one thin web of rose and gold over lakes of burnished light...."
PART ONE
IN WHICH PETER
MEETS A DRAGON, AND
THE LOVELY LADY
MAKES HER APPEARANCE
[Pg 3]PART ONE
IN WHICH PETER MEETS A DRAGON, AND THE
LOVELY LADY MAKES HER APPEARANCE
I
The walls of the Wonderful House rose upstraight and shining, pale greenish gold as theslant sunlight on the orchard grass under theapple trees; the windows that sprang arching tothe summer blueness let in the scent of thecluster rose at the turn of the fence, beginning torise above the dusty smell of the
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