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A Dreadful Temptation
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Author : Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
A Dreadful Temptation written by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Man-woman relationships categories.
Xenie Carroll has had her heart broken by her one true love. In the aftermath of that romance's failure, she decides to give up on love and marry for money. But when even her new-found fortune proves to be insufficient to take her mind off her pain, Xenie cooks up a nefarious plot to get back at the man who rejected her.
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Author : Alex McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Release Date : 2021-10-22
A Dreadful Temptation Or A Young Wife S Ambition written by Alex McVeigh Miller and has been published by Alpha Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
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A Dreadful Temptation
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Author : Alex. Alex. McVeigh Miller
language : en
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Release Date : 2019-02-09
A Dreadful Temptation written by Alex. Alex. McVeigh Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-09 with categories.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: "Hark! there's the wedding-march.""Here they come!""Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?""Oh, no; as beautiful as a dream, to my notion. Pallor is becoming in brides, you know.""He's a silly old dotard, though, not to know that she's taking him for his money.""Of course he knows it. I dare say the old gray-beard is glad he had money enough to buy so much youth and loveliness.""What a splendid veil and dress! They say her rich aunt furnished the trousseau.""Her jewels are magnificent.""The bridegroom's gift, of course. Well, he is able to cover her with diamonds."These were but few of the remarks that were whispered in the fashionable throng gathered at Trinity to witness a marriage in high life--a marriage that was all the more interesting from the fact that the contracting parties were so totally dissimilar to each other that the whole affair in the eyes of the outsiders resolved itself into a simple matter of bargain and sale--so much youth and beauty for an old man's gold.The bridegroom was John St. John, a millionaire of high birth and standing in the city where he lived, but so old and infirm that people said of him that "he had one foot in the grave and the other on the brink of it," and the bride was the young daughter of some obscure country people.An aunt in the city had given her some advantages, and kept her in town two seasons, hoping to bring about a good match for her, since she had no dowry of her own, save youth, talent and peerless beauty."And what is your fortune, my pretty maid?""My face is my fortune, sir," she said.And Xenie Carroll was fulfilling her aunt's ambitious hopes and desires to their uttermost limit as she walked up the broad aisle of Trinity that night, clothed in her bridal white, and leaning on the arm of the decrepit old millionaire, John St. John.His form was bent with age, his hair and beard were white, his eyes were dim and bleared; and she was in the bloom of youth and beauty. It was the union of winter and summer.They passed slowly up the aisle to the grand music of the wedding-march, and after them came fair maidens, robed in white and adorned with flowers and jewels.These stood round about the pair at the altar who were taking upon their lips the sacred vow of marriage.It was over.The holy man of God lifted reverent hands and invoked God's blessing upon this sordid bargain that desecrated the holy rite of marriage, the ring was slipped over the bride's white finger, and Xenie Carroll turned away from the altar Mrs. John St. John, mistress of the handsomest house in the city and the most princely private fortune.There was a flash of triumph in her dark eyes as she received the congratulations of her friends, yet her cheeks and lips were cold and white as marble.But the light and color came back to her beautiful face when, in the same carriage that had taken her from her aunt's roof a poor, dependent girl, she was whirled back to the millionaire's splendid home to take her place as its queen.The aged bridegroom scarcely felt equal to an extended bridal tour, so he had wisely eschewed a trip, and determined to inaugurate the reign of the new social star by a brilliant reception at his splendid residence.All the beauties of art and nature were called in to further his design.The elegant drawing-rooms were almost transformed into bowers of tropical bloom.
A Dreadful Temptation Or A Young Wife S Ambition
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Author : Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
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Author : Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-27
A Dreadful Temptation Or A Young Wife S Ambition written by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-27 with Fiction categories.
This novel explores the dark side of ambition and the consequences that come with it. Set in a world of high society and filled with intrigue, scandal, and betrayal, the story follows the life of Xenie Carroll, a young and beautiful woman. Xenie Carroll marries a wealthy old man for his money but finds herself struggling with the dreadful temptation to pursue her desires at any cost.
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Author : Alex. McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2018-08-04
A Dreadful Temptation Or A Young Wife S Ambition written by Alex. McVeigh Miller and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-04 with Fiction categories.
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Author : Alex Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-22
A Dreadful Temptation Or A Young Wife S Ambition written by Alex Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with categories.
Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
A Dreadful Temptation
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Author : Alexander McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
A Dreadful Temptation written by Alexander McVeigh Miller and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Xenie Carroll has had her heart broken by her one true love. In the aftermath of that romance's failure, she decides to give up on love and marry for money. But when even her new-found fortune proves to be insufficient to take her mind off her pain, Xenie cooks up a nefarious plot to get back at the man who rejected her.
A Dreadful Temptation
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Author : Alex. McVeigh Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-08-09
A Dreadful Temptation written by Alex. McVeigh Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-09 with categories.
A Dreadful Temptation is a romantic novel written by the American author Mittie Frances Clark Point who wrote under her pen name Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, derived from her husband McVeigh Miller. A well-known author of her times, she has wrote more than 80 novels and most them are in romantic genre such as The Bride of the Tomb & Queenie's Terrible Secret, She loved a handsome actor, They Looked and Loved, Guy Kenmore's Wife & The Rose and the Lily, The Fatal Birthday, and Little Golden's Daughter . Xenie, a beautiful girl is terribly upset over her lover Howard Templeton's abrupt exit from their affair. Her lord Mr. St. John persuaded her to marry though she is much younger of age than him. With an eye on financial gain and lavish life style, she agrees to marry, however she does not love him. Later she has a chance to revenge on her ex-lover Howard to take the fortune from him. In the preceding incidents the story narrates her dreadful temptation of taking on Howard.
The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints
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Author :
language : en
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Release Date : 1975
The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Union catalogs categories.