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Thorns of Regret

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

The richest man in the county is buried, his sons Byrd and Delmar Barrington chief among the mourners, and the reading of his will sets the story going.

"The Thorns of Regret" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a romantic novel, first issued as a dime novel. It opens with a funeral and the reading of a will; its early chapters are "Ashes to Ashes", "The Reading of the Will", "Fate" and "A Hasty Wooing".

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Slowly and solemnly the village church-bells tolled while the funeral cortège wound its way to the grave, followed by the long train of mourners.

The richest man in the country was dead, and the whole neighborhood had turned out to do honor to his obsequies.

The chief mourners were his two sons, Byrd and Delmar Barrington, his widowed sister, Mrs. French, and his adopted daughter, Maisie Van Allyn.

These four stood in silent grief by the grave while the preacher’s voice droned over the burial service, shuddering as the clods began to fall upon the splendid casket, but waiting till the mound was shaped and covered with floral tributes before they turned away and left the dead to his long repose.

No violent grief had been shown by the mourners, and nothing but subdued respect by the sympathetic friends, and as the crowd dispersed there was not one who said feelingly:

The minister who had preached his funeral sermon had very pertinently remarked before launching into an eloquent discourse upon death:

“The deceased is too well known to you all for me to dilate at length upon his characteristics. He has made his way among you from obscurity to wealth and position.”

What the reverend man said was perfectly true. Any of Augustus Barrington’s neighbors could have sketched the outlines of his biography.

Augustus Barrington had prided himself upon being a self-made man.

Contents

  1. 01Thorns of Regret
  2. 02The Thorns of Regret.
  3. 03Contents
  4. 04Chapter I. Ashes to Ashes.
  5. 05Chapter II. The Reading of the Will.
  6. 06Chapter III. Fate.
  7. 07Chapter IV. A Hasty Wooing.
  8. 08Chapter V. “There Are Other Lips!”
  9. 09Chapter VI. The Worst Fate That Could Befall.
  10. 10Chapter VII. Pure Gold and Gilded Dross.
  11. 11Chapter VIII. Give Me My Release.
  12. 12Chapter IX. “Lead Us Not Into Temptation!”
  13. 13Chapter X. Maisie’s Flight from Home.
  14. 14Chapter XI. Only to Suffer and Endure!
  15. 15Chapter XII. The Die Was Cast.
  16. 16Chapter XIII. Josephine’s Little Game.
  17. 17Chapter XIV. What Bliss Had She Only Loved Me.
  18. 18Chapter XV. In the Clash of Hostile Arms.
  19. 19Chapter XVI. Such a Tragedy of Woe.
  20. 20Chapter XVII. The Only Romance of His Life.
  21. 21Chapter XVIII. A Painful Disappointment.
  22. 22Chapter XIX. A Suspicious Lover.
  23. 23Chapter XX. “Forgive the Past; I Love You Now!”
  24. 24Chapter XXI. One Glimpse—One Only.
  25. 25Chapter XXII. Brothers at Last.
  26. 26Chapter XXIII. The Wedding-Bells.
  27. 27Chapter XXIV. I Could Not Be Happy Without Love!
  28. 28Chapter XXV. A Wretched Meeting.
  29. 29Chapter XXVI. Like an Envenomed Arrow.
  30. 30Chapter XXVII. The Might-Have-Been.
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII. The Thorns of Regret.
  32. 32Chapter XXIX. True Love Is Eternal.
  33. 33Chapter XXX. The Lightning Bolt of Jealousy.
  34. 34Chapter XXXI. “Long Hopes Wear Out Joy.”
  35. 35Chapter XXXII. “You Have Grown Into My Heart.”
  36. 36Chapter XXXIII. A Breathing Spell of Joy.
  37. 37Chapter XXXIV. The Suspended Sword.
  38. 38Chapter XXXV. Unmasked.
  39. 39Chapter XXXVI. “Have You No Pity for Me?”
  40. 40Chapter XXXVII. I Know No Comfort!
  41. 41Chapter XXXVIII. Looking Backward.
  42. 42Chapter XXXIX. The Sunshine of a Winter Day.
  43. 43Chapter XL. “The Poor Heart She Broke.”
  44. 44Everybody Reads The Street & Smith Novels
  45. 45Transcriber’s Notes:

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
222 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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