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Cruel As The Grave

Cruel As The Grave

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CRUEL AS THE GRAVE

A NOVEL.

BY MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.

AUTHOR OF “SELF-MADE,” “ISHMAEL,” “SELF-RAISED,” “FAIR PLAY,” “VIVIA,”
“MISSING BRIDE,” “A BEAUTIFUL FIEND,” “CHANGED BRIDES,” “RETRIBUTION,”
“HOW HE WON HER,” “A NOBLE LORD,” “BRIDE’S FATE,” “FALLEN PRIDE,”
“LADY OF THE ISLE,” “THE MAIDEN WIDOW,” “ALLWORTH ABBEY,”
“GYPSY’S PROPHECY,” “LOST HEIRESS,” “WIDOW’S SON,” “INDIA,”
“THREE BEAUTIES,” “BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN,” “BRIDAL EVE,”
“DISCARDED DAUGHTER,” “FATAL SECRET,” “TWO SISTERS,”
“CURSE OF CLIFTON,” “TRIED FOR HER LIFE,”
“PHANTOM WEDDING,” “LOVE’S LABOR WON,”
“FORTUNE SEEKER,” “FATAL MARRIAGE,”
“MOTHER-IN-LAW,” “CHRISTMAS GUEST,”
“FAMILY DOOM,” “WIFE’S VICTORY.”

        “He to whom
I gave my heart, with all its wealth of love,
Forsakes me for another.”—Medea.

“And we saw Medea burning
 At her nature’s-planted stake.”—Browning.

NEW YORK:
THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Nos. 72-76 Walker Street.


Copyright, 1888,

By T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS.


Cruel as the Grave.


CONTENTS


I. The Berners of the Burning Hearts. 21
II. John Lyon Howe. 26
III. Sybil Berners. 32
IV. The Beautiful Stranger. 45
V. The Landlord’s Story. 48
VI. Rosa Blondelle. 59
VII. Down in the Dark Vale. 71
VIII. Black Hall. 76
IX. The Guest-Chambers. 83
X. The Jealous Bride. 91
XI. Love and Jealousy. 103
XII. “Cruel As the Grave.” 112
XIII. More Than the Bitterness of Death. 126
XIV. The First Fatal Hallow Eve. 133
XV. The Masquerade Ball. 142
XVI. On the Watch. 147
XVII. Driven to Desperation. 154
XVIII. Lying in Wait. 175
XIX. Swooping Down. 183
XX. The Search. 191
XXI. Sybil’s Flight. 198
XXII. The Haunted Chapel.

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