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The Fatal Marriage

The Fatal Marriage

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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Author
Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899
Title
The fatal marriage : or, Orville Deville
Original Publication
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1882.
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 79290
Release Date
August 6, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE FATAL MARRIAGE; OR, ORVILLE DEVILLE.
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I. THE OUTLAW’S DAUGHTER.
  3. 3.CHAPTER II. THE OUTLAW’S HOME
  4. 4.CHAPTER III. THE OUTLAW.
  5. 5.CHAPTER IV. PASSION
  6. 6.CHAPTER V. PASSION AND TEMPTATION.
  7. 7.CHAPTER VI. THE OLD MANOR-HOUSE.
  8. 8.CHAPTER VII. THE LADY ADELAIDE DEVILLE.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. WHICH IS THE WIFE?
  10. 10.CHAPTER IX. THE FAIR BRIDE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER X. LIONNE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER XI. INTERVIEW BETWEEN ADELAIDE AND LIONNE.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XII. SELF-SACRIFICE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. AT BUSH CREEK.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. DISCOVERY OF THE FLIGHT.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XV. BETRAYER AND BETRAYED.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. ORVILLE AND LIONNE.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. THE MIDNIGHT WALK.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. THE RESCUED WANDERER.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. LIONNE.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XX. ADELAIDE.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. LIONNE AND THE INDIAN WITCH.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. LADY ADELAIDE’S WOE.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. ADELAIDE’S CONSOLATION
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. LAKE ISLAND AND CASTLE.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. DEATH AT THE FETE.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI. THE SPECTRE AT THE FEAST
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII. THE CLEAVING CURSE.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVIII. VENGEANCE.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIX. AN ACT OF MADNESS.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXX. A HOUSELESS NIGHT WANDERER.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXXI. THE STRANGER’S FATE.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXXII. THE WIFE.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXIII STRANGE MEETINGS.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIV. MELPOMENE.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXV. THE MEETING.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXVI. STORMS
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVII. THE CRISIS.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE LIONESS AND THE LAMB.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIX. THE CURSE OF AN ACCOMPLISHED VOW.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XL. THE AVENGER.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XLI. CONCLUSION.

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