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The Man She Hated

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

The story follows Fairfax Fielding, a beautiful young factory girl navigating love and societal expectations while grappling with her confusing feelings towards Waverley Osborne, a wealthy man.

"The Man She Hated: or, Won by Strategy" by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller is a fictional novel. The story follows Fairfax Fielding, a beautiful young factory girl navigating love and societal expectations while grappling with her confusing feelings towards Waverley Osborne, a wealthy man.

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“Fair Fielding, I heard something about you last night,” said one of the sewing girls in an uptown factory in New York to her nearest neighbor, a very young girl, whose red-brown head was bent over a sewing machine as she deftly guided her work, a heap of fine white muslin, beneath the shining needle.

“What?” asked Fairfax Fielding, lifting her sparkling brown eyes—they were the brightest, softest, loveliest brown eyes, although their owner was only a little sewing girl—a garment maker. You would not find in a day’s journey a prettier face than hers, with its complexion as smooth and clear as the petals of a creamy tea rose, its piquant dimples whenever she smiled, its well-shaped features, and broad, intelligent, white brow, shaded by babyish, curling locks of hair that the girls teasingly called red, but which in reality was beautiful, dusky, red gold, with such warm glints of light in its dark waves that it made other colors appear tame and common by contrast. With that shining hair, those liquid brown eyes, and that expression of gentleness and purity marking the fair brow and rosebud lips, Fair was more than pretty.

“I heard you were going to get married, that’s what!”

There was a little feminine titter from every girl in the range of hearing, and Fair’s dainty wild-rose bloom deepened to angry scarlet.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Factory Girls.
  2. 02Chapter II. Her Mother’s Advice.
  3. 03Chapter III. Saved by a Young Hero.
  4. 04Chapter IV. A Throbbing Heart.
  5. 05Chapter V. A Persistent Suitor.
  6. 06Chapter VI. A Marriage Proposal.
  7. 07Chapter VII. The Fatal Wedding.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. An Organ Grinder.
  9. 09Chapter IX. Repenting at Leisure.
  10. 10Chapter X. A Sudden Bereavement.
  11. 11Chapter XI. An Unwelcome Telegram.
  12. 12Chapter XII. A Terrible Experience.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Ordered to Vacate.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Followed in the Street.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Food at Last.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Living in Luxury.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Two Years of Travel.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Meeting Her First Love.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Fetters of the Past.
  20. 20Chapter XX. A Plot for a Novel.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Plans for the Future.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Part of the Truth.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Prince Arrives.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Wedding Hour.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. A Bitter Confession.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. A Husband’s Demands.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. In Mad Flight.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. The Lover’s Resolutions.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. A Working Girl’s Wedding.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Returned Husband.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. For Her Mother’s Sake.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. The Missing Girl.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Greeting an Old Friend.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. A Double Traitor.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. In the Ruins.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. The Author’s Bride.
  37. 37Transcriber’s Notes

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
183 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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