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Francis A. Durivage. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
Table of Contents
THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER
A LEGEND OF MADRID
PHILETUS POTTS
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
THE GONDOLIER
THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS
A MILITARY SKETCH
THE THREE BRIDES
CALIFORNIA SPECULATION
THE FRENCH GUARDSMAN
PERSONAL SATISFACTION
THE CASTLE ON THE RHINE
LOVE IN A COTTAGE
THE CAREER OF AN ARTIST
SOUVENIRS OF A RETIRED OYSTERMAN IN ILL HEALTH
THE NEW YEAR'S STOCKINGS
THE OBLIGING YOUNG MAN
EULALIE LASALLE
A STORY OF THE REIGN OF TERROR
THE OLD CITY PUMP
THE TWO PORTRAITS
UNCLE OBED
A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT IN PEN AND INK
THE CASKET OF JEWELS
ACTING CHARADES
THE GREEN CHAMBER
HE WASN'T A HORSE JOCKEY
FUNERAL SHADOWS
A MYSTERY
THE LATE ELIAS MUGGS,
CAPTAIN IN THE M. V. M
THE SOLDIER'S WIFE
A KISS ON DEMAND
THE RIFLE SHOT
A MADMAN'S CONFESSION
THE WATER CURE
THE COSSACK
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
MARRIED FOR MONEY
THE EMIGRANT SHIP
THE LAST OF THE STAGE COACHES
A FRAGMENT OF A CLUB-ROOM CONVERSATION
THE SEXTON OF ST. HUBERT'S
A STORY OF OLD ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
THE QUEEN OF THE MAY
CHAPTER II
THE GYPSY CAMP
CHAPTER III
RETRIBUTION
JACK WITHERS
THE SILVER HAMMER
THE CHRIST CHURCH CHIMES
THE POLISH SLAVE
OBEYING ORDERS
THE DEACON'S HORSE
THE CONTRABANDISTA
A TALE OF THE PACIFIC COAST
THE STAGE-STRUCK GENTLEMAN
THE DIAMOND STAR;
OR, THE ENGLISHMAN'S ADVENTURE
A STORY OF VALENCIA
THE GAME OF CHANCE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
THE SOLDIER'S SON
TAKING CHARGE OF A LADY
THE NEW YEAR'S BELLS
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW
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Francis A. Durivage
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"Perhaps you will think it strange, young man, that, after all, the wretched survivor stood again at the altar. But he was a mysterious being, whose ways were inscrutable, who, thirsting for domestic bliss, was doomed ever to seek and never to find it. His third bride was Madeleine. I well remember her. She was a beauty, in the true sense of the word. It may seem strange to you to hear the praise of beauty from such lips as mine; but I cannot help expatiating upon hers. She might have sat upon a throne, and the most loyal subject, the proudest peer, would have sworn the blood within her veins had descended from a hundred kings. She was a proud creature, with a tall, commanding form, and raven tresses, that floated, dark and cloud-like, over her shoulders. She was a singularly-gifted woman, and possessed of rare inspiration. She loved the widower for his power and his fame, and she wedded him. They were married in that church. It was on a summer afternoon—I recollect it well. During the ceremony, the blackest cloud I ever saw overspread the heavens like a pall, and, at the moment when the third bride pronounced her vow, a clap of thunder shook the building to the centre. All the females shrieked, but the bride herself made the response with a steady voice, and her eyes glittered with wild fire as she gazed upon her bridegroom. He remarked a kind of incoherence in her expressions as they rode home-ward, which surprised him at the time. Arrived at his house, she shrunk upon the threshold: but this was the timidity of a maiden. When they were alone he clasped her hand—it was as cold as ice! He looked into her face.
"Madeleine," said he, "what means this? your cheeks are as pale as your wedding gown!" The bride uttered a frantic shriek.
