# The Chevalier's daughter

Author: Guernsey, Lucy Ellen, 1826-1899

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73365

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Chevalier%27s+daughter+Guernsey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My mother was an English lady, daughter of a very ancient Devonshire family. Her name was Margaret Corbet, and the branch of that tribe to which she belonged had settled in Cornwall. I remember her as a very beautiful woman, with crispy waved blonde hair and a clear white skin more like alabaster than marble, and no tinge of color in her cheeks. I never saw any other person so pale as she, though her lips were always red. She had beautiful gray eyes, with long black lashes, and clearly defined arched eyebrows meeting above her nose, which gave a very serious and even solemn expression to her face. This expression accorded well with her character, which was grave and thoughtful and very de...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chevalier-s-daughter-73365/chapters/23/index.md)