CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
A DREADFUL TEMPTATION
BY
MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER
AUTHOR OF "QUEENIE'S TERRIBLE SECRET," "JAQUELINA," ETC.
NEW YORK
INTERNATIONAL BOOK COMPANY
3, 4, 5 AND 6-MISSION PLACE
Copyright, 1883,
by
NORMAN L. MUNRO
[All rights reserved.]
A DREADFUL TEMPTATION;
OR,
A Young Wife's Ambition.
By MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER.
CHAPTER I.
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness
Their melody foretells!"
"Hark! there's the wedding-march."
"Here they come!"
"Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
"Oh, no; as beautiful as a dream, to my notion. Palloris becoming in brides, you know."
"He's a silly old dotard, though, not to know that she'staking him for his money."
"Of course he knows it. I dare say the old gray-beardis glad he had money enough to buy so much youth andloveliness."
"What a splendid veil and dress! They say her richaunt furnished the trousseau."
"Her jewels are magnificent."
"The bridegroom's gift, of course. Well, he is able tocover her with diamonds."
These were but few of the remarks that were whisperedin the fashionable throng gathered at Trinity to witness a