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Viola's vanity

Chapter 2: INDEX
By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
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A beautiful young Washington society belle revels in admiration and flirtation, attracting competing suitors and entering a secret engagement. Her sudden elopement with a poorer romantic choice ignites scandal, familial outrage, broken promises, and intense jealousy. The narrative traces ensuing regret, rivalries, and concealed sorrows as relationships fracture and collide, moving through confessions, betrayals, separations, and startling reversals. Confronted with the costs of vanity and pride, the central woman endures moral and emotional trials that lead her toward repentance, the uncovering of secrets, and a measure of vindication.

INDEX

ChapterPage
I  “Lightly Won is Lightly Lost.”3
II  “Sweetheart, Name the Day for Me.”11
III  The Moth and the Star17
IV  “And Thou Wert Gay,—22
V  The Mysterious Stranger27
VI  Viola’s Repentance34
VII  ’Twixt Love and Hate42
VIII  Heart Struggles47
IX  “A Man’s Heart is not Simply a Toy!”50
X  Their Meeting58
XI  Turning Over a New Leaf62
XII  Hidden Grief67
XIII  A Sweet Confession72
XIV  Several Secrets75
XV  Queen of Song and Love and Beauty82
XVI  The Bridal-Eve90
XVII  Viola’s Waterloo98
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-Coming122
XXII  “Go Back to your Haughty Bride.”127
XXIII  Playing her Part133
XXIV  The Letter that came too Late138
XXV  “Had you Only Waited ’Till This Morning.”143
XXVI  Only a Month153
XXVII  Viola’s New Role158
XXVIII  Viola’s Vindication164
XXIX  Alienation170
XXX  Rivals Still176
XXXI  “Could Ye Come Back to Me, Douglas!”182
XXXII  The Portrait187
XXXIII  “Whom First We Love, We Seldom Wed.”193
XXXIV  In Her Toils Again200
XXXV  “It was Pique, not Love.”205
XXXVI  Startling News212
XXXVII  Bon Voyage215
XXXVIII  “As Flies the Dove to seek its Mate.”221
XXXIX  Hope Deferred maketh the Heart Sick224
XL  “Cuba Libre”229
XLI  “After Long Grief and Pain.”234