# The History of the Lady Betty Stair

Author: Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916; Thulstrup, Thure de, 1848-1930 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67280

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+History+of+the+Lady+Betty+Stair+Seawell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IN the year 1798 the palace of Holyrood was inhabited by a swarm of French people,--his Royal Highness the Comte d’Artois, who in his youth had danced so deliciously on the tightrope as to be the admiration of the Little Trianon, and in his old age was Charles X. of France; his Savoyard princess, Marie Thérèse; and some gentlemen and ladies in waiting. Among the suite were four persons whose lives had been remotely but strangely connected in the old days at Versailles; and as fate is an adept at such tricks, all four of them were brought together in this old haunted palace when the Comte d’Artois took up his abode there. One of them, the Abbé de Ronceray, was a brave, gentle old priest, w...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-the-lady-betty-stair-67280/chapters/6/index.md)