The Senator's Bride
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Alex. McVeigh Miller. The Senator's Bride
CHAPTER I. THE FALL OF A METEOR
CHAPTER II. TOO LATE
CHAPTER III "SWEETHEART, GOOD-BY."
CHAPTER IV. RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER V. WHAT THE WINNER'S HAND THREW BY
CHAPTER VI. LULU
CHAPTER VII "I HATE IT—I HATE HER!"
CHAPTER VIII "BUT AS FOR HER, SHE STAID AT HOME."
CHAPTER IX "WHEN A WOMAN WILL, SHE WILL."
CHAPTER X. AT THE CAPITOL
CHAPTER XI "IT MAY BE FOR YEARS, AND IT MAY BE FOREVER."
CHAPTER XII "FATE HAS DONE ITS WORST."
CHAPTER XIII. ON THE OCEAN
CHAPTER XIV "IN HIS HEART CONSENTING TO A PRAYER GONE BY."
CHAPTER XV "HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE HUMAN BREAST."
CHAPTER XVI "SMILING AT GRIEF."
CHAPTER XVII "TO BE, OR NOT TO BE."
CHAPTER XVIII "OTHER REFUGE HAVE I NONE."
CHAPTER XIX. A NEW YEAR'S GIFT
CHAPTER XX. WEDDING CARDS
CHAPTER XXI "RUE."
CHAPTER XXII. ON TIPTOE FOR A FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXIII. IN MEMPHIS
CHAPTER XXIV. LULU TO HER MOTHER
CHAPTER XXV. THE PATHOS OF A QUIET LIFE
CHAPTER XXVI. LULU TO HER MOTHER
CHAPTER XXVII "NEARER MY GOD TO THEE."
CHAPTER XXVIII. LULU TO HER MOTHER
CHAPTER XXIX. LAST WORDS
CHAPTER XXX "BABY FINGERS, WAXEN TOUCHES."
CHAPTER XXXI. AT HER FEET
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Mrs. Conway was not wearing the willow for her wandering nephew. On the contrary, her elegant rooms constantly witnessed merry gatherings, where mirth and music reigned supreme. She was still a handsome woman, still a brilliant woman, and the world of society, fashion, and folly held her as one of its leaders. The delicate state of her health had improved, she had dispensed with her fair companion, and on a sweet spring night, just four years from the date of the beginning of this story, she was giving a splendid ball in honor of the wife of the distinguished and handsome Senator Winans, of Virginia.
The elite of Norfolk was gathered there, the house was garnished with wreaths and garlands of flowers, till the long drawing-rooms opening into each other looked like fast succeeding vistas of intoxicating bloom. Music rose voluptuously overall, and the proud hostess moved among her guests looking handsome as a picture, and young for her fifty-four years, in the sea-green silk and misty laces that accorded so well with her dark eyes and hair, and sweetly smiling mouth.
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Her answer came low and sweet, though perhaps a trifle impatient, as though the subject seemed to her scarcely worth this "wordy war."
"Well, then, Mr. Bruce Conway startled me very much by entering here quite suddenly and making me an offer of his hand, declaring that he had learned to love me while abroad. I checked him by telling him that I was a wife and mother. You heard his apology to me—he did not know of my marriage. That is all there is to tell."
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