A Mad Love
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Charlotte M. Brame. A Mad Love
CHAPTER I. A DISCONTENTED BEAUTY
CHAPTER II "WHAT, MARRY A FARMER!"
CHAPTER III. THE MEETING AT THE MILL
CHAPTER IV. AN INTERESTING TETE-A-TETE
CHAPTER V. THE RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER VI. AN IMPATIENT LOVER'S PLANS
CHAPTER VII. A FRIEND'S ADVICE
CHAPTER VIII. THE PROPHECY
CHAPTER IX. A MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM
CHAPTER X. A SHOCKED FATHER
CHAPTER XI. THE LAWYER'S STATEMENT
CHAPTER XII "THEY WILL NOT FORGIVE ME."
CHAPTER XIII. A PERFECTLY HAPPY WOMAN
CHAPTER XIV "TRUE UNTIL DEATH."
CHAPTER XV. AN EXCITING INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XVI. LEONE'S DETERMINATION
CHAPTER XVII "I WOULD RATHER SEE MY SON DEAD."
CHAPTER XVIII. A WRONGED WOMAN'S THREAT
CHAPTER XIX. LEONE'S PROPHECY
CHAPTER XX. THE PARTING
CHAPTER XXI. WAITING FOR THE DAY
CHAPTER XXII. THE RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XXIII. A SHREWD SCHEME
CHAPTER XXIV. IN THE HANDS OF A CLEVER WOMAN
CHAPTER XXV. THE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER XXVI. MAN'S FICKLENESS
CHAPTER XXVII "TELL ME YOUR SECRET."
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOW IT HAPPENED
CHAPTER XXIX. WAITING FOR HIM
CHAPTER XXX. THE THIRTIETH OF JUNE
CHAPTER XXXI. A MAN OF WAX
CHAPTER XXXII. AN ACT OF PERFIDY
CHAPTER XXXIII "I HAVE PERJURED MYSELF."
CHAPTER XXXIV. A PALE BRIDEGROOM
CHAPTER XXXV "I LEAVE THEM MY HATRED AND MY CURSE."
CHAPTER XXXVI. AFTER THREE YEARS
CHAPTER XXXVII. A MEETING OF EYES
CHAPTER XXXVIII. LANCE'S DETERMINATION
CHAPTER XXXIX. NEITHER WIFE NOR WIDOW
CHAPTER XL "FORGIVE ME, LEONE."
CHAPTER XLI "LET US BE FRIENDS."
CHAPTER XLII. BECOMING SUSPICIOUS
CHAPTER XLIII "DEATH ENDS EVERYTHING."
CHAPTER XLIV. THE RIVALS FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER XLV. AN INVITATION
CHAPTER XLVI. AT THE BALL
CHAPTER XLVII. THE COMPACT OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE HUSBAND'S KISS
CHAPTER XLIX. THE WOUND IN HER HEART
CHAPTER L "AS DEAD AS MY HOPES."
CHAPTER LI. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER LII. A GATHERING CLOUD
CHAPTER LIII. A QUARREL
CHAPTER LIV. A MOTHER'S APPEAL
CHAPTER LV "WAR TO THE KNIFE."
CHAPTER LVI. AN APPROACHING TEMPEST
CHAPTER LVII. A PROUD WOMAN HUMBLED
CHAPTER LVIII "BEHOLD MY REVENGE!"
CHAPTER LIX. USELESS PLEADINGS
CHAPTER LX "THIS WOMAN SHALL NEVER KNOW."
CHAPTER LXI. A SACRIFICE
CHAPTER LXII "THE GRAVE ALONE GIVES PEACE."
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One can imagine the sensation that a bright, beautiful eagle would produce in a dove's nest; the presence of that beautiful, imperious child at the farm was very much the same. People looked at her in wonder; her beauty dazzled them; her defiance amused them. They asked each other where all her pride came from.
Uncle Robert often said in his slow fashion that he retired from business when Leone was seven. At that early age he gave the management of everything into her baby hands. From the chickens in the yard to the blue and white pigeons on the roof. She could manage him, big as he was, with one stamp of her little foot, one flash of her bright eyes; he was powerless at once, like a great big giant bound hand and foot. She was a strange child, full of some wonderful power that she hardly understood herself – a child quite out of the common groove of life, quite above the people who surrounded her. They understood her beauty, her defiance, her pride, but not the dramatic instinct and power that, innate in her, made every word and action seem strange.
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Leone loved the spot; the restless, gleaming waters suited her; it seemed to have something akin to herself – something restless, full of force and vitality. She sat there for hours; it was her usual refuge when the world went wrong with her.
Round and round went the wheel; on sunlight days the sun glinted on the sullen waters until they resembled a sheet of gold covered with white, shining foam. Green reeds and flowers that love both land and water fringed the edges of the clear, dimpling pool; the alder-trees dipped their branches in it; the great gray stones, covered with green moss, lay here and there. It was a little poem in itself, and the beautiful girl who sat in the moonlight read it aright.
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