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Dainty's Cruel Rivals; or, the Fatal Birthday

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

McVeigh Miller is a romantic novel written in the late 19th century.

"Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a romantic novel written in the late 19th century.

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"It's a perfect godsend, this invitation!" cried Olive Peyton, with unwonted rapture in her cold voice.

"Yes, indeed!" assented her chum and cousin, Ela Craye, joyfully. "I have wondered over and over how we were going to buy our summer clothes and spare enough money for a trip, and here comes Aunt Judith's invitation to her country home just in the nick of time."

"And how lucky, to think of her step-son, Lovelace Ellsworth, getting home at last from Europe! Either you or I must capture him, Ela!" added Olive, eagerly, her black eyes sparkling with the hope of getting a rich husband.

"We might—if only she had not invited Dainty Chase."

Olive frowned, but answered, courageously:

"Pshaw! aunt might just as well have saved her manners. Dainty can not possibly go. She hasn't a decent thing to wear at such a grand place as Ellsworth."

"She would look pretty in a rag, and we both know it. Dainty by name, and dainty by nature," Ela returned, gloomily, yielding reluctant homage to a fair young cousin of whose charms both were profoundly jealous.

Olive and Ela, who were school-teachers in the southern city, Richmond, Virginia, boarded with a widowed aunt who took this means of supporting herself and her only child Dainty, who had but just graduated at a public school, and hoped to become a teacher herself next year. They were poor, but Dainty, with her fair face and gay good-nature, was like an embodied ray of sunshine.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. "A Sweet Girl Graduate."
  2. 02Chapter II. "The Prettiest Girl in the Room!"
  3. 03Chapter III. The Happiest Day She Had Ever Known.
  4. 04Chapter IV. The Old Monk.
  5. 05Chapter V. "Only a Dream."
  6. 06Chapter VI. Love's Rosy Dawn.
  7. 07Chapter VII. "The Trail of the Serpent."
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Ellsworth Honor.
  9. 09Chapter IX. "All That's Bright Must Fade."
  10. 10Chapter X. "The Grim Fates."
  11. 11Chapter XI. Love's Presentiments.
  12. 12Chapter XII. A Maddened Lover.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Sad Forebodings.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Dainty Would Never Forget That Day.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Black Mammy's Story.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. The Ghost Alarm.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. The Night Before the Wedding.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII the Wedding Morn.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. A Madman's Deed.
  20. 20Chapter XX. The End of the Day.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Would Heaven Turn Away from Her Wild Appeal?
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Unmasked.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Ah! The Pity of It!
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Darkest Hour.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Among Strangers.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. The Mother's Woe.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. It Seemed Like Some Beautiful Dream When She Entered the Gates in the Chilly Sunset of a Windy October Day.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. More Bitter Than Death.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. As We Kiss the Dead.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. A Terrible Deed.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Lost! Lost! Lost!
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. It Was the Overflowing Drop of Sorrow in the Cup That Already Brimmed Over.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. A New Home.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Thrown on the World.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Grand Company.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. "Only to See You, My Darling."
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. A Wonderful Discovery.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Good News.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. "For All Eternity."
  40. 40Chapter XL. Conclusion.

About this edition

Author
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
204 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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