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Betrothed for a Day

Betrothed for a Day

by Laura Jean Libbey

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Author
Libbey, Laura Jean, 1862-1924
Title
Betrothed for a day: Or, Queenie Trevalyn's love test
Original Publication
United States: Street & Smith,1901.
Credits
Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Dime novels
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68760
Release Date
August 16, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes:
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.BETROTHED FOR A DAY;
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.Untitled
  7. 7.CHAPTER I. A STRANGER’S LOVE.
  8. 8.CHAPTER II. A WORSHIPER OF WEALTH.
  9. 9.CHAPTER III. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV. THE MIDNIGHT DUEL.
  11. 11.CHAPTER V. THE POWER OF GOLD.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI. A MAN’S FICKLE HEART.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII. A DREAD ALTERNATIVE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT LOVE?
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX. “A LITTLE ROUGH DIAMOND.”
  16. 16.CHAPTER X. AFTER THIRTEEN YEARS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI. REBUKED BY A GIRL.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII. “WHO IS JESS?”
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. LUCK SMILES.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. A FATEFUL MEETING.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XV. THE LOVE THAT IS SURE TO COME.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. COLD AND HEARTLESS.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. WAS IT THE DECREE OF FATE?
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. A PREMONITION OF COMING EVIL.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. THE BETROTHAL.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XX. “DO WE EVER LOVE THE WRONG ONE?”
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONG.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. THE RESCUE.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. VAIN REGRETS.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. ONLY AN IMPULSIVE CHILD.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. “WILL YOU MARRY ME, LITTLE JESS?”
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. LOVE.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. DECISIONS.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DARKENING CLOUDS.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. “LEAVE MY HOUSE.”
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. HIS UNCLE’S BRIDE.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. IN HIS POWER.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. TO WRECK A YOUNG GIRL’S LIFE.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. UNDER THE MASK OF FRIENDSHIP.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. HIS STORY.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. THE WEB OF FATE.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII. A GREAT SURPRISE.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII. AT HIS FEET.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX. A TEST OF LOVE.
  46. 46.CHAPTER XL. THE FIRST LOVE.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLI. “WAS IT ALL A DREAM?”
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLII. THE PLOT THICKENS.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII. THE LOVE THAT WILL NOT DIE.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLIV. THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE.
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLV. NAMING THE DAY.
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLVI. OLD FRIENDS MEET.
  53. 53.CHAPTER XLVII. A MOMENT OF TERROR.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLVIII. WHAT IS TO BE WILL BE.
  55. 55.Untitled
  56. 56.Untitled
  57. 57.Untitled
  58. 58.Untitled
  59. 59.Transcriber’s Notes:

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