The Lovely Lady

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Mary Hunter Austin. The Lovely Lady

PART ONE

IN WHICH PETER MEETS A DRAGON, AND THE. LOVELY LADY MAKES HER APPEARANCE

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PART TWO

IN WHICH PETER BECOMES INVISIBLE ON. THE WAY TO GROWING RICH

PART THREE

IN WHICH PETER BECOMES A BACHELOR

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PART FOUR

IN WHICH THE LOVELY LADY MAKES A. FINAL APPEARANCE

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The walls of the Wonderful House rose up straight and shining, pale greenish gold as the slant sunlight on the orchard grass under the apple trees; the windows that sprang arching to the summer blueness let in the scent of the cluster rose at the turn of the fence, beginning to rise above the dusty smell of the country roads, and the evening clamour of the birds in Bloombury wood. As it dimmed and withdrew, the shining of the walls came out more clearly. Peter saw then that they were all of coloured pictures wrought flat upon the gold, and as the glow of it increased they began to swell and stir like a wood waking. They leaned out from the walls, looking all one way toward the increasing light and tap-tap of the Princess' feet along the halls.

"Peter, oh, Peter!"

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A kind of arctic stillness pervaded the place, out of which the two men hailed each other at intervals as from immeasurable deeps of space.

"Mr. Greenslet," ventured Peter at last, "are you a rich man?"

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