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Sworn to Silence

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

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

"Sworn to silence" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century.

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The family carriage of the Rodneys stood before the gate, and Mouse and Kitty, the two sleek gray ponies, champed their bits impatiently while the Rodneys, great and small, issued forth in gala attire.

They were going to the picnic in Walnut Grove—mamma, papa, Effie, and little Max—all but Aline, and she was in disgrace and forbidden to go. (Not that the command itself would have been sufficient to detain her, but she was locked into her room, “in durance vile,” and left in charge of the cook for safe-keeping.)

Aline was usually in disgrace with the family. She had the sweetest face and the warmest heart in the world, but with her high spirits and willful ways she had a most lamentable faculty for getting into mischief of some sort daily, and it was for some more flagrant offense than usual that mamma had sternly vetoed the picnic to-day and locked her into her room to meditate on her many and grievous faults.

The culprit, from her upper window, flattened her pretty piquant little nose against the window-pane and gazed after the departing quartet with great sparkling tears in the lovely eyes whose rare and peculiar shade of deep purple-blue had been caught from the far-off strain of Irish blood that flowed in her veins. They were “sweetest eyes were ever seen,” at once arch and tender and shaded by long, black-fringed lashes overarched by—

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
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
331 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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