My Lady Peggy Goes to Town

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[Illustration: Then Lady Peggy, laughing...]

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MY LADY PEGGY GOES TO TOWN

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By

FRANCES AYMAR MATHEWS

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ILLUSTRATED BY HARRISON FISHER

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GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1901, By The Bowen-Merrill Company

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THE DECORATIONS DESIGNED BY VIRGINIA KEEP THE COVER DESIGNED BY FRANCIS HAZENPLUG

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Then Lady Peggy, laughing, humming such a gay Frontispiece snatch of a song, comes tripping down the stairs.

And Lady Peggy and her woman found themselves on Page 40 the road to town.

“A touch, a hit!” cry all at once as a spurt of Page 68 blood darts up the supposed Sir Robin’s blade.

Two watched her as she came in on Beau Brummell’s Page 112 arm.

At the table sat Kennaston, inky-fingered, Page 158 scribbling; eyes now rolling to the ceiling, now roving hither and yon.

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The instant that Lady Peggy felt herself in the highwayman’s saddle, she knew that her wrists had met their match. Page 186

“I am Sir Robin McTart! Who, the devil, are you?” Page 278

“Ah, Peggy, my adored one,” says he, devouring her pale face with his happy eyes. Page 336

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When gay postillions cracked their whips, And gallants gemmed their chat with quips; When patches nestled o’er sweet lips At choc’late times; and, ’twixt the sips, Fair Ladies gave their gossips tips; Then, in Levantine gown and brooch, My Lady Peggy took the coach, For London Town!

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In the which My Lady Peggy sends off her lover broken-hearted and promptly falls into a swoon.

Kennaston Castle lies in Surrey. The Earl of Exham is master of the picturesque old pile and of the estate, and decidedly the slave of the very considerable number of debts which were up to His Lordship’s ears when he came of age, some four and fifty years ago, and by this time have reached almost to the crown of his head. He is also father to his son and heir, Kennaston of Kennaston, and to the heir’s tall twin, My Lady Peggy.