Chapter I: Front Matter

VIOLA’S VANITY;

OR

A BITTER EXPIATION

By MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER

HART SERIES NO. 67

COPYRIGHT 1897 BY GEORGE MUNRO’S SONS

Published by
THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY,
Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A.

INDEX

CHAPTER PAGE

I “Lightly Won is Lightly Lost.” 3

II “Sweetheart, Name the Day for Me.” 11

III The Moth and the Star 17

IV “And Thou Wert Gay,-- 22

V The Mysterious Stranger 27

VI Viola’s Repentance 34

VII ’Twixt Love and Hate 42

VIII Heart Struggles 47

IX “A Man’s Heart is not Simply a Toy!” 50

X Their Meeting 58

XI Turning Over a New Leaf 62

XII Hidden Grief 67

XIII A Sweet Confession 72

XIV Several Secrets 75

XV Queen of Song and Love and Beauty 82

XVI The Bridal-Eve 90

XVII Viola’s Waterloo 98

XVIII “I Drove Poor Viola to Her Death.” 104

XIX A Coup D’État. 112

XX “Was ever Maiden in This Humor Wooed?” 117

XXI The Bride’s Home-Coming 122

XXII “Go Back to your Haughty Bride.” 127

XXIII Playing her Part 133

XXIV The Letter that came too Late 138

XXV “Had you Only Waited ’Till This Morning.” 143

XXVI Only a Month 153

XXVII Viola’s New Role 158

XXVIII Viola’s Vindication 164

XXIX Alienation 170

XXX Rivals Still 176

XXXI “Could Ye Come Back to Me, Douglas!” 182

XXXII The Portrait 187

XXXIII “Whom First We Love, We Seldom Wed.” 193

XXXIV In Her Toils Again 200

XXXV “It was Pique, not Love.” 205

XXXVI Startling News 212

XXXVII Bon Voyage 215

XXXVIII “As Flies the Dove to seek its Mate.” 221

XXXIX Hope Deferred maketh the Heart Sick 224

XL “Cuba Libre” 229

XLI “After Long Grief and Pain.” 234

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