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Alex. McVeigh Miller

The Senator's FavoriteMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller The Senator's Favorite CHAPTER I. "A ROSEBUD SET WITH LITTLE WILLFUL THORNS." "We were two daughters of one race;She was the fairest in the face;The wind is sighing in turret and tree.I hated her with the hate of hell,Therefore revenge became me wel...

Countess Vera; or, The Oath of VengeanceMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller Countess Vera / or, The Oath of Vengeance CHAPTER I "Dead!"Leslie Noble reels backward, stunned by the shuddering horror of that one word—"Dead!" The stiff, girlish characters of the open letter in his hand waver up and down before...

The Senator's BrideMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller The Senator's Bride CHAPTER I. THE FALL OF A METEOR "Once those eyes, full sweet, full shy,Told a certain thing to mine;What they told me I put by,Oh, so careless of the sign.Such an easy thing to take,And I did not want it then;Fool! I wish my heart w...

An Old Man's DarlingMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller An Old Man's Darling CHAPTER I "The sea, the sea, the open sea;The blue, the fresh, the ever free," chanted the fresh and delicious voice of a young girl walking along the sands of the seashore in the summer sunshine at Cape May."Cross my palm with si...

My Pretty Maid; or, Liane LesterAlfred Thayer Mahan My Pretty Maid / or, Liane Lester CHAPTER I. A DESPERATE CHANCE "How fast the river flows! How it roars in my ears and drowns the sound of your voice, my dearest! It is bearing me away! Oh, save me! save me!"The river was the stream of Death, an...

Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' ConspiracyMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller Laurel Vane / or, The Girls' Conspiracy CHAPTER I All the clocks of the great, thronged city clanged out the hour of midnight from their hoarse, brazen throats simultaneously, and as the last tremulous echo died away on the air, a hu...

Lancaster's ChoiceMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller Lancaster's Choice CHAPTER I Old Lady Lancaster had twenty thousand pounds a year of her own. She had brought that much dower when she came to her husband, the late Lord Lancaster, and now, when he was dead, and she a childless widow, she was like the M...

Little NobodyMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller Little Nobody CHAPTER I He was a Northern journalist, and it was in the interest of his paper that he found himself, one bright March morning, in New Orleans, almost dazed by the rapidity with which he had been whirled from the ice and snow of the frozen Nor...

Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome ActorCHAPTER I "ALAS! WHY DID SHE DO IT?"CHAPTER II. AFTER SIXTEEN YEARSCHAPTER III "THIS PRINCE KARL—THIS RALPH CHAINEY—IS MY RESCUER AT NEWPORT LAST SUMMER," WHISPERED THE ROMANTIC GIRLCHAPTER IV "I DISTINCTLY FORBID YOU TO ...

Pretty Geraldine, the New York Salesgirl; or, Wedded to Her ChoiceMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller Pretty Geraldine, the New York Salesgirl; or, Wedded to Her Choice CHAPTER I. ON THE THRESHOLD OF HER FATE "If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled,And take my choice of all earth's treasures, too,Or cho...