THE CHEVALIER'S DAUGHTER;
Reading edition
OR,
An Exile for the Truth.
BY
LUCY ELLEN GUERNSEY
AUTHOR OF
"LADY BETTY'S GOVERNESS," "WINIFRED," "LADY ROSAMOND'S BOOK."
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NOTE.
THESE memoirs were written by my respected grandmother when she was quite an old lady. I well remember as a child seeing her writing upon them, my grandfather sitting near, and she now and then suspending her pen to talk over some incident with him. Matters have not improved in France since her time, but 'tis said that the young dauphin is quite a different man from his father, and if he ever comes to the throne, an effort will be made in behalf of toleration for the persecuted Protestants. I hope so, I am sure. But to return to the memoir. After my grandparents' deaths, which took place within a week of each other, the papers were mislaid, and I only found them by accident in an inner cupboard of a curious old carved cabinet (I suspect the very one described in these pages), which my younger brother took a fancy to repair. I have amused the leisure afforded me by a tedious sprained ankle in arranging and transcribing these papers, which seem to me both interesting and profitable. ROSAMOND GENEVIEVE CORBET. Tre Madoc Court, May 1st, 1740.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I. Early Recollections
II. The Tour d'Antin
III. Youthful Days
IV. Trust and Distrust
V. Guests at the Tour
VI. The Lonely Grange
VII. A Sudden Summons
VIII. Flight
IX. In Jersey
X. To England
XI. Tre Madoc
XII. Mischief
XIII. The Book
XIV. A Wedding
XV. Stanton Court
XVI. London
XVII. My New Friends
XVIII. A Great Step
XIX. Another Change
XX. "You shall have no Choice"
XXI. The Convent
XXII. The Voyage
XXIII. Conclusion
THE CHEVALIER'S DAUGHTER