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A melodramatic tale centers on Violet Arleigh, an eighteen-year-old whose celebratory ball is overshadowed by her mother Rosamond’s concealed past and a menacing ultimatum. The threat sets off a sequence of dangers—tragedy, an apparent drowning, escapes, jealousies, plotted betrayals, and wrongful confinement—while friends and foes pursue hidden motives. The narrative interleaves tense incidents with gradual revelations as characters attempt to atone for or exploit former mistakes; mysteries are unraveled, schemes exposed, and long-buried truths come to light, culminating in a final confrontation that forces moral and emotional reckonings for several lives.

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Title: A bitter reckoning;

or, Violet Arleigh

Author: Mrs. E. Burke Collins

Release date: February 26, 2023 [eBook #70139]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1893

Credits: Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BITTER RECKONING; ***

A BITTER RECKONING

OR

VIOLET ARLEIGH

By Mrs. E. Burke Collins


HART SERIES No. 44


Copyright 1893 by
GEO. MUNRO’S SONS


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