My Pretty Maid; or, Liane Lester
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Alex. McVeigh Miller. My Pretty Maid; or, Liane Lester
CHAPTER I. A DESPERATE CHANCE
CHAPTER II. FATE IS ABOVE US ALL
CHAPTER III "MY PRETTY MAID."
CHAPTER IV. SECRET LOVE
CHAPTER V. ROMA'S LOVERS
CHAPTER VI. AFTER THE CRIME
CHAPTER VII. GRANNY'S REVENGE
CHAPTER VIII. THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER IX. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
CHAPTER X. ROMA SEEKS A NEW MAID
CHAPTER XI. THE BEAUTY SHOW
CHAPTER XII "THE QUEEN ROSE."
CHAPTER XIII. EDMUND CLARKE'S SUSPICION
CHAPTER XIV. ROMA FINDS AN ALLY
CHAPTER XV "A DYING MOTHER."
CHAPTER XVI. A LOVE LETTER
CHAPTER XVII. A CRUEL FORGERY
CHAPTER XVIII. LIANE'S FLEETING LOVE DREAM
CHAPTER XIX. WHAT DOLLY TOLD
CHAPTER XX "AS ONE ADMIRES A STATUE."
CHAPTER XXI. A HARVEST OF WOE
CHAPTER XXII. AT A FIEND'S MERCY
CHAPTER XXIII. A MURDEROUS FURY
CHAPTER XXIV. A STRAND OF RUDDY HAIR
CHAPTER XXV. A TRUE FRIEND
CHAPTER XXVI. TREMBLING HOPES
CHAPTER XXVII. WHEN HAPPINESS SEEMED NEAR!
CHAPTER XXVIII. A SWORD THRUST IN HIS HEART
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BRIDAL
CHAPTER XXX. BEFORE THE DAWN
CHAPTER XXXI. WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLLED BY
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It was six o'clock by all the watches and clocks at Stonecliff, and the girls at Miss Bray's dressmaking establishment hastily put up their work and were starting for home, chattering like a flock of magpies, when their employer called after them testily:
"Say, girls, one of you will have to take this bundle up to Cliffdene. Miss Clarke wanted it very particularly to wear to-night. Liane Lester, she lives nearer to you than any of the others. You take it."
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"How happy Miss Clarke must be; so beautiful and rich, with fine dresses, and jewels, and scores of handsome lovers! I wonder if Mr. Devereaux knows her, and if he admires her like all the rest? He would not mind marrying her, I suppose. She does not live in a shanty, and have a spiteful old grandmother to make her weary of her life," thought poor, pretty Liane, as she paused in the setting sunlight before the broad, open door.
At that moment a superb figure swept down the grand staircase toward the trembling girl—a stately figure, gowned in rustling silk, whose rich golden tints, softened by trimmings of creamy lace, suited well with the handsome face, lighted by spirited eyes of reddish brown, while the thick waves of shining, copper-colored hair shone in the sunset rays like a glory. Liane knew it was Miss Clarke, the beauty and heiress; she had seen her often riding through the streets of Stonecliff.
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