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A Little Southern Beauty

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

A romance that opens at a birth-night ball on a moonlit Virginia estate, where a young girl shows off her dress of white tulle and silk to Madame Orne.

"A Little Southern Beauty; or, Tortured Hearts" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a romantic novel set in Virginia, first issued as a dime novel in the Eagle Series. Its opening chapters are "The Birth-Night Ball", "It Was but a Dream" and "Charlton Anticipates a Siege".

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“Look at my dress, Madame Orne! Isn’t it sweet?”

The slender figure, standing alone at the open window in quiet contemplation of the beauty of the moonlit Virginia landscape, turned with a pensive smile and looked at the vision of youth and beauty that stood courtesying gayly before her—a dazzling mist of white tulle and silk, pearls, and pink rosebuds that framed the beauty of a young girl, a slender maiden, dark and lovely, with lips like crimson flowers, and proud, dark eyes that flashed with happy radiance.

Before the quiet governess could speak the girl continued joyously:

“The boys are here at last! The train was late, of course—always is when it ought to be on time!—so they will have to make their toilets in a fearful hurry! Brother is looking just splendid, dear old fellow!”

“Viva, I wish you wouldn’t say ‘dear old fellow.’ It sounds coarse from a young girl’s lips. And it isn’t correct to apply the adjective fearful to trifles, as you did just now. What would your newly fledged graduates think of such slang?”

Contents

  1. 01The Eagle Series Retail, 10 Cents
  2. 02A Little Southern Beauty; or, Tortured Hearts.
  3. 03A Little Southern Beauty.
  4. 04Contents
  5. 05Chapter I. The Birth-Night Ball.
  6. 06Chapter II. “It Was but a Dream.”
  7. 07Chapter III. Charlton Anticipates a Siege.
  8. 08Chapter IV. “You Are Not My Hero—Never Can Be.”
  9. 09Chapter V. The Sisters.
  10. 10Chapter VI. Vivian “Is Sorry.”
  11. 11Chapter VII. A Wicked Deed.
  12. 12Chapter VIII. The Lady’s Secret.
  13. 13Chapter IX. Max Verne at Home.
  14. 14Chapter X. “It Is All Right.”
  15. 15Chapter XI. “Man Makes Hard Laws.”
  16. 16Chapter XII. “It Was Only a Boy’s Fancy.”
  17. 17Chapter XIII. Tokens from the River.
  18. 18Chapter XIV. News for Vivian.
  19. 19Chapter XV. “The Hand Without the Heart.”
  20. 20Chapter XVI. La Messe De Requiem
  21. 21Chapter XVII. A Terrible Mistake.
  22. 22Chapter XVIII. The Beginning of the End.
  23. 23Chapter XIX. At Diana’s Wedding.
  24. 24Chapter XX. “People Always Repent When It Is Too Late.”
  25. 25Chapter XXI. The Sleigh-Ride.
  26. 26Chapter XXII. Dark Hours.
  27. 27Chapter XXIII. In the Space of Three Years.
  28. 28Chapter XXIV. Twelve Months Later.
  29. 29Chapter XXV. A Villain’s Work.
  30. 30Chapter XXVI. Remorse.
  31. 31Chapter XXVII. “From Grave to Gay; from Lively to Severe.”
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII. “This Hour, in Which I See My Revenge at Hand, Is the Sweetest of My Life.”
  33. 33Chapter XXIX. A Widowed Bride.
  34. 34Chapter XXX. Diana’s Advice.
  35. 35Chapter XXXI. Acquitted of All Blame.
  36. 36Chapter XXXII. “Let Me Help You.”
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII. “I Did Not Understand, or I Should Have Loved You More.”
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV. The Dark Beyond.
  39. 39Chapter XXXV. Time’s Revenge.
  40. 40Chapter XXXVI. “Love Is Love Forevermore.”
  41. 41Chapter XXXVII. Only One Little Promise.
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII. “Across Death’s Dim Hills.”
  43. 43Chapter XXXIX. Finis.
  44. 44The Queen of American Novelists Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
  45. 45The Novels of Charles Garvice
  46. 46A Most Charming Love Story Little Miss Whirlwind By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
  47. 47Transcriber’s Notes:

About this edition

Author
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
189 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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