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قراءة كتاب A Manifest Destiny
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A Manifest Destiny
BY
JULIA MAGRUDER
AUTHOR OF “A MAGNIFICENT PLEBEIAN”
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1900
Copyright, 1900, by Julia Magruder.
All rights reserved.
Page 16“BETTINA THREW BACK HER VEIL”
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I. | 1 | CHAPTER X. | 118 | |
| CHAPTER II. | 14 | CHAPTER XI. | 125 | |
| CHAPTER III. | 43 | CHAPTER XII. | 137 | |
| CHAPTER IV. | 52 | CHAPTER XIII. | 158 | |
| CHAPTER V. | 66 | CHAPTER XIV. | 171 | |
| CHAPTER VI. | 72 | CHAPTER XV. | 179 | |
| CHAPTER VII. | 83 | CHAPTER XVI. | 186 | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | 94 | CHAPTER XVII. | 197 | |
| CHAPTER IX. | 108 | CHAPTER XVIII. | 203 |
| “BETTINA THREW BACK HER VEIL” | Frontispiece | |
| SHE SANK BACK IN HER CHAIR | Facing p. | 34 |
| “‘AND WHO IS THIS HANDSOME BOY?’” | “ | 60 |
| “‘THE MONEY WAS PARTLY MY OWN’” | “ | 100 |
| “THE VERY SPIRIT OF WIDOWHOOD” | “ | 168 |
| “‘TRULY, MY CHILD, IT IS A WRETCHED STORY’” | “ | 190 |
A MANIFEST DESTINY
CHAPTER I
Bettina Mowbray, walking the deck of the ocean steamer bound for England, was aware that she was observed with interest by a great many pairs of eyes. Certainly the possessors of these eyes were not more interested in her than she was in the interpretation of their glances. It was, indeed, of the first importance to her to know that she was being especially noticed by the men and women of the world, who in large part made up the passenger list, since her beauty was her one endowment for the position in the great world which all her life she had intended and expected to occupy. She was anxious, therefore, to know whether the personal appearance which had been rated so high in the obscure places hitherto known to her