Original (English)

Transcribed from 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Proofed by Nina Hall, Mohua Sen, Bridie, Francine Smith and David. THE CHAPERON. I. An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees.  She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in h