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Laurel Vane; or, the Girls' Conspiracy
McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century.
"Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century.
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All the clocks of the great, thronged city clanged out the hour of midnight from their hoarse, brazen throats simultaneously, and as the last tremulous echo died away on the air, a human soul that had wasted its glorious talents, and squandered its heritage of genius in a reckless, dissipated life, was launched out on the great, shoreless tide of eternity.
And in the same moment of time a young, fair, innocent girl, the dead man's only child, was cast adrift, friendless and forlorn, upon the mercies of the cold, hard world.
She fell, like one dead, by the bedside, and the wealth of her burnished golden hair fell like a pitying veil over the slender form that had bent like a flower before the relentless blast of fate.
The coarse, but not unkindly, lodging house people bore her into her own little room, and left her there alone to recover, while they prepared the dead man for burial to-morrow.
It was but a little while that this blessed unconsciousness lasted, when Laurel Vane struggled up to her feet to push back with little, trembling hands the cloud of golden hair from her white brow, and stare with great, frightened, somber eyes out into the strange, unknown future.
What terrible temptation, what love and sorrow and bitter despair that future held in its keeping for her was yet mercifully hidden from her sight by the thick curtain of mystery that ever hides To-morrow from our curious eyes.
Contents
- 01Chapter I.
- 02Chapter II.
- 03Chapter III.
- 04Chapter IV.
- 05Chapter V.
- 06Chapter VI.
- 07Chapter VII.
- 08Chapter VIII.
- 09Chapter IX.
- 10Chapter X.
- 11Chapter XI.
- 12Chapter XII.
- 13Chapter XIII.
- 14Chapter XIV.
- 15Chapter XV.
- 16Chapter XVI.
- 17Chapter XVII.
- 18Chapter XVIII.
- 19Chapter XIX.
- 20Chapter XX.
- 21Chapter XXI.
- 22Chapter XXII.
- 23Chapter XXIII.
- 24Chapter XXIV.
- 25Chapter XXV.
- 26Chapter XXVI.
- 27Chapter XXVII.
- 28Chapter XXVIII.
- 29Chapter XXIX.
- 30Chapter XXX.
- 31Chapter XXXI.
- 32Chapter XXXII.
- 33Chapter XXXIII.
- 34Chapter XXXIV.
- 35Chapter XXXV.
- 36Chapter XXXVI.
- 37Chapter XXXVII.
- 38Chapter XXXVIII.
- 39Chapter XXXIX.
- 40Chapter XL.
- 41Chapter XLI.
- 42Chapter XLII.
- 43Chapter XLIII.
- 44Chapter XLIV.
- 45Chapter XLV.
- 46Chapter XLVI.
- 47Chapter XLVII.
- 48Chapter XLVIII.
- 49Chapter XLIX.
- 50Chapter L.
- 51Chapter LI.
- 52Chapter LII.
- 53Chapter LIII.
- 54Chapter LIV.
- 55Chapter LV.
- 56Chapter LVI.
- 57Chapter LVII.
- 58Chapter LVIII.
- 59Chapter LIX.
- 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
- 311 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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