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The Strength of Love
McVeigh Miller is a romance novel likely written in the late 19th century.
"The Strength of Love, or Love is Lord of All" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a romance novel likely written in the late 19th century.
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When Dallas Bain and Royall Sherwood, with the dashing young widow, Mrs. Fleming, drove down the village street in their fine landau that summer afternoon, Daisie Bell stood on the steps of her aunt’s cottage, plucking the purple wistaria blooms from the vines above her head, and the picture she made in her youth and grace stayed in both the men’s hearts till they died.
Just a slip of a girl—perhaps seventeen or eighteen—gowned very simply, in white, with lavender ribbons at throat and waist; but her figure was grace and symmetry itself; and her face—well, men have died for faces less fair than hers, with its dusk-violet eyes, blue in the light, black in the shade, under the fringed curtain of jetty lashes that contrasted so vividly with the living gold of her hair as it swept in loose waves over her shoulders.
Both the young men gazed at this charming vision in frank delight, and as the unknown beauty and the gay little widow exchanged formal bows, exclaimed simultaneously:
Mrs. Fleming frowned jealously, bit her red lips, and answered, with some asperity:
“What geese men are! Always caught by theatricals! Couldn’t you both see that the bold thing was just posing for your benefit?”
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Rivals in Love.
- 02Chapter II. The Other One.
- 03Chapter III. The Spell of Love.
- 04Chapter IV. False.
- 05Chapter V. A Cruel Coquette.
- 06Chapter VI. “I Cannot Give Up My Love.”
- 07Chapter VII. Tempted to End It All.
- 08Chapter VIII. A Terrible Mistake.
- 09Chapter IX. She Must Keep the Secret.
- 10Chapter X. Daisie’s Despair.
- 11Chapter XI. She Could Never Forget.
- 12Chapter XII. An Unbidden Guest.
- 13Chapter XIII. “Her Own Again.”
- 14Chapter XIV. “Love Is Heaven.”
- 15Chapter XV. “The Fault Was Mine!”
- 16Chapter XVI. Faithful.
- 17Chapter XVII. His Cruel Rival.
- 18Chapter XVIII. “Be Kind to Me.”
- 19Chapter XIX. Strange Emotion.
- 20Chapter XX. His Confession.
- 21Chapter XXI. She Longed for Death.
- 22Chapter XXII. “The Die Was Cast.”
- 23Chapter XXIII. “Misery Loves Company.”
- 24Chapter XXIV. Coals of Fire.
- 25Chapter XXV. More Cruel Than Death.
- 26Chapter XXVI. Expiation.
- 27Chapter XXVII. To Remember a Little While.
- 28Chapter XXVIII. “A Shocking Little Flirt.”
- 29Chapter XXIX. “For Daisie’s Sake.”
- 30Chapter XXX. Remorse and Repentance.
- 31Chapter XXXI. The Cruel Truth.
- 32Chapter XXXII. The Spider’s Web.
- 33Chapter XXXIII. Love That Would Last
- 34Chapter XXXIV. Unmasked.
- 35Chapter XXXV. “God Help Us!”
- 36Chapter XXXVI. The Strength of Love.
- 37Chapter XXXVII. For Royall’s Sake.
- 38Chapter XXXVIII. “Love Is Lord of All.”
- 39Transcriber’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
- 198 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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