Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

_[The Stanton-Corbet Chronicles.]_
_[Year 1660]_

THE

CHEVALIER'S DAUGHTER;

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