Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes:

Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).

Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.

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Loved You Better Than You Knew

_By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller_

HART SERIES NO. 59

COPYRIGHT 1897
BY GEO. MUNRO’S SONS

PUBLISHED BY
THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, O., U. S. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Cupid in the Rain 5

II. One Golden Hour 13

III. The Sweet Old Story 21

IV. Breakers Ahead 25

V. Retrospection 29

VI. Rebellion 34

VII. “The Fates Forbid It” 40

VIII. A Dark Secret 45

IX. A Bunch of Roses 51

X. A Feminine Weakness 55

XI. Cinthia’s Elopement 63

XII. Outwitted 69

XIII. Oh, What a Night! 74

XIV. Parted at the Altar 79

XV. “An Eternal Farewell!” 85

XVI. “Oh, What a Time!” 90

XVII. A Deadly Feud 95

XVIII. “Remember That I Loved You Well” 103

XIX. A Tragic Past 109

XX. Love and Loss 113

XXI. A Quarrel with Fate 119

XXII. When Years Had Fled 127

XXIII. “I Can Not Love Again!” 137

XXIV. “The Pangs That Rend My Heart
in Twain!” 144

XXV. “Like an Angel” 147

XXVI. ’Neath Southern Skies 152

XXVII. “Where the Clematis Boughs Intwine” 156

XXVIII. Only Friends 161

XXIX. A Secret Sorrow 169

XXX. Mysteries 172

XXXI. Most Bitterly Bereaved 176

XXXII. “A Cold Gray Life” 181

XXXIII. Puppets of Fate 187

XXXIV. “The Weight of Cruel Years Piled
Into One Long Agony” 192

XXXV. Cinthia’s Betrothal 197

XXXVI. An Obstinate Woman 201

XXXVII. Beyond Forgiveness 208

XXXVIII. Her Side of the Story 214

XXXIX. A Mortal Wound 219

XL. A Late Repentance 224

XLI. “The Greed of Gold” 230

XLII. In the Sunshine 235

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