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Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

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

"Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century.

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She was dead by her own hand, the beautiful child-wife of Vincent Carew, the millionaire—dead in her youth and beauty, leaving behind her all that life held for a worshipped wife and loving mother; for upstairs at this moment in the silken nursery her child, the baby Kathleen, barely six months old, lay sweetly sleeping, watched by an attentive French bonne, while in the darkened parlor below, the girlish mother, not yet eighteen, lay pale and beautiful in her coffin, with white flowers blooming on the pulseless breast, hiding the crimson stain where the slight jeweled dagger from her hair had sheathed itself in her tortured heart.

She was so young, so ignorant, or surely she would have held back her suicidal hand—she would have taken pity on her child, the dark-eyed little heiress she was leaving motherless in the wide, wide world that, whatever else it may give us, can not make up for the loss of the best thing life has to offer—a mother's love!

It is always a terrible misfortune to a young girl to be motherless, and it was going to be the tragedy of Kathleen Carew's life that she had no mother. The dagger-thrust that let out the life-blood of unhappy Zaidee Carew turned the whole course of her daughter's life aside into different channels.

But that lay in the future. Now all Boston wondered over the tragic death of Vincent Carew's wife, and people asked each other in dismay:

The world thought that the young wife was perfectly happy.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.
  2. 02Chapter II.
  3. 03Chapter III.
  4. 04Chapter IV.
  5. 05Chapter V.
  6. 06Chapter VI.
  7. 07Chapter VII.
  8. 08Chapter VIII.
  9. 09Chapter IX.
  10. 10Chapter X.
  11. 11Chapter XI.
  12. 12Chapter XII.
  13. 13Chapter XIII.
  14. 14Chapter XIV.
  15. 15Chapter XV.
  16. 16Chapter XVI.
  17. 17Chapter XVII.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII.
  19. 19Chapter XIX.
  20. 20Chapter XX.
  21. 21Chapter XXI.
  22. 22Chapter XXII.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV.
  25. 25Chapter XXV.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX.
  30. 30Chapter XXX.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX.
  40. 40Chapter XL.
  41. 41Chapter XLI.
  42. 42Chapter XLII.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV.
  45. 45Chapter XLV.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX.
  50. 50Chapter L.
  51. 51Chapter LI.
  52. 52Chapter LII.
  53. 53Chapter LIII.
  54. 54Chapter LIV.
  55. 55Chapter LV.
  56. 56Chapter LVI.
  57. 57Chapter LVII.
  58. 58Chapter LVIII.
  59. 59Chapter LIX.
  60. 60Chapter LX.

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
310 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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