CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. “Roseen Dhu”[1]
II. Brother and Sister[11]
III. Lady Betty and her Father[18]
IV. In the Woods of Althorpe[27]
V. Lady Sunderland[42]
VI. Lady Betty’s Toilet[52]
VII. At the Races[61]
VIII. Lady Betty and an Irish Jacobite[72]
IX. The Wearing of the Green[81]
X. An Irish Defiance[89]
XI. A Night of Portents[104]
XII. Master and Man[110]
XIII. Lady Betty takes the Field[120]
XIV. The Inn Garden[129]
XV. My Lady Sunderland takes Tea[139]
XVI. My Lord Clancarty[147]
XVII. At the Toy-Shop[157]
XVIII. The Duel[165]
XIX. My Lord Savile reaps his Reward[170]
XX. Lady Betty’s Search[180]
XXI. The Valley of the Shadow[186]
XXII. “Until Death us do Part”[196]
XXIII. My Lord Spencer[211]
XXIV. Melissa[221]
XXV. Mr. Secretary Vernon[229]
XXVI. The Arrest[235]
XXVII. The Traitor’s Gate[245]
XXVIII. Alice and Denis[256]
XXIX. Father and Daughter[260]
XXX. My Lord of Devonshire[268]
XXXI. Lady Russell[276]
XXXII. The King[284]
XXXIII. Donough![293]

My LADY CLANCARTY

Being the True Story of the Earl of Clancarty
and Lady Elizabeth Spencer

CHAPTER I

“ROSEEN DHU”

LADY BETTY shaded her eyes with her hand and looked out on the rose garden of Althorpe.