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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.
II. —
John Lyon Howe.
III. —
Sybil Berners.
IV. —
The Beautiful
Stranger.
V. —
The Landlord’s Story.
VI. —
Rosa Blondelle.
VII. —
Down in the Dark
Vale.
VIII. —
Black Hall.
IX. —
The Guest-Chambers.
X. —
The Jealous Bride.
XI. —
Love and Jealousy.
XII. —
“Cruel As the Grave.”
XIII. —
More Than the
Bitterness of Death.
XIV. —
The First Fatal
Hallow Eve.
XV. —
The Masquerade Ball.
XVI. —
On the Watch.
XVII. —
Driven to
Desperation.
XVIII. —
Lying in Wait.
XIX. —
Swooping Down.
XX. —
The Search.
XXI. —
Sybil’s Flight.
XXII. —
The Haunted Chapel.
XXIII. —
The Solitude is
Invaded.
XXIV. —
The Verdict and the
Visitor.
XXV. —
The Fall of the
Dubarrys.
XXVI. —
The Spectre.
XXVII. —
Fearful Waiting.
XXVIII. —
A Ghastly Procession.
XXIX. —
Ghostly and
Mysterious
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