THE HISTORY OF THE
LADY BETTY STAIR
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“‘I present you with the Cross for Tried Bravery. None has
deserved it more than you.’”
THE HISTORY
OF THE LADY
BETTY STAIR
BY
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
AUTHOR OF
“THE SPRIGHTLY ROMANCE OF MARSAC,”
“CHILDREN OF DESTINY,” “THROCKMORTON,”
“LITTLE JARVIS,”
ETC.
Illustrated by
THULE DE THULSTRUP
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1897
Copyright, 1897,
By Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Dramatic and all other rights
reserved.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
List of Illustrations
| PAGE | |
| “I present you with the Cross for Tried Bravery. None has deserved it more than you” | Frontispiece |
| Now, Lady Betty had in her hand a large green fan | 6 |
| “I recollect this young lady well” | 16 |
| Never was there a handsomer couple, or a more graceful | 32 |
| “Let him go, you wretched bailiffs” | 72 |
| “Dear lady, this is the night I go” | 82 |
| “Tell him so, I beg of you” | 106 |
| She was just half a minute too late | 130 |
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The History of the Lady
Betty Stair
IN the year 1798 the palace of Holyroodwas inhabited by a swarm ofFrench people,—his Royal Highnessthe Comte d’Artois, who in his youthhad danced so deliciously on the tightropeas to be the admiration of theLittle Trianon, and in his old agewas Charles X. of France; his Savoyardprincess, Marie Thérèse; and somegentlemen and ladies in waiting.