Excerpt from A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Issac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of the Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down<br><br>The curtain fell and the woman disappeared, and in but a few minutes more an unheard-oi thing happened - among the servants in the hall the same old woman appeared making her way with a hurried fretfulness, and she descended haltingly the stone steps and came to his side where he sat on his black horse.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.