WHY DID HE MARRY HER.
BYMISS ELIZA A. DUPUY.
AUTHOR OF "THE PLANTER'S DAUGHTER," "WAS HE GUILTY; OR, THE WARNING VOICE," "THE BRIDE OF FATE," "THE LADY OF ASHURST," "THE FATAL ERROR," "THE EVIL GENIUS," "THE SECRET CHAMBER," "THE OUTLAW'S BRIDE," "THE LIFE CURSE," "THE DEAD HEART," "THE WHITE TERROR," "THE FAMILY SECRET," ETC. "There is a comfort in the strength of love, 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart." WORDSWORTH.
PHILADELPHIA:
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS;
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH'S WORKS.
Each Work is complete in one large duodecimo volume.
- THE FAMILY DOOM; OR, THE SIN OF A COUNTESS.
- THE MAIDEN WIDOW. Sequel to "The Family Doom."
- THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
- THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
- THE THREE BEAUTIES.
- THE WIFE'S VICTORY.
- THE DESERTED WIFE.
- THE CHANGED BRIDES.
- THE BRIDE'S FATE. SEQUEL TO CHANGED BRIDES.
- THE BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN.
- THE GIPSY'S PROPHECY.
- THE FORTUNE SEEKER.
- THE LOST HEIRESS.
- RETRIBUTION.
- THE BRIDAL EVE.
- THE TWO SISTERS.
- FAIR PLAY; OR, THE TEST OF THE LONE ISLE.
- HOW HE WON HER. A SEQUEL TO FAIR PLAY.
- THE FATAL MARRIAGE.
- THE HAUNTED HOMESTEAD.
- LOVE'S LABOR WON.
- THE MISSING BRIDE.
- LADY OF THE ISLE.
- FALLEN PRIDE; OR, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL'S LOVE.
- INDIA; OR, THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER.
- VIVIA; OR, THE SECRET OF POWER.
- THE CURSE OF CLIFTON.
- THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER.
- THE WIDOW'S SON.
- ALLWORTH ABBEY.
Price of each, $1.75 in Cloth; or $1.50 in Paper Cover.
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CONTENTS.
- I.—NEWS FROM ABROAD. 21
- II.—AN OLD MAN'S WRATH. 35
- III.—THE DEATH BED MARRIAGE. 52
- IV.—THE LITTLE, BROWN, UGLY, ILL-BRED CREATURE. 67
- V.—A SMALL PARCEL OF NOTHING POORLY PUT UP. 75
- VI.—THE ORDEAL. 82
- VII.—THE MIDNIGHT ENCOUNTER. 86
- VIII.—STARTLING NEWS FOR CLARA. 99
- IX.—THE CLAIRVOYANT AND HER MYSTERIOUS PATIENT. 107
- X.—LUMLEY REVEALS HIS PLANS. 113
- XI.—CLARA'S FORTUNE IN JEOPARDY. 119
- XII.—A STRANGE WOOER. 132
- XIII.—ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. 140
- XIV.—MADELINE AND HER HUMBLE FRIENDS. 153
- XV.—THE DIAMOND CROSS AND ITS COUNTERFEIT. 163
- XVI.—SHOOTING FOLLY AS IT FLIES. 181
- XVII.—THE MISMATCHED PAIR, AND A MYSTERIOUS INTERVIEW. 193
- XVIII.—CHARLIE ASHTON GOES IN QUEST OF PROOFS. MRS. EUSTON FINDS A CLUE TO MADELINE. 216
- XIX.—THE RIVALS STAND FACE TO FACE. 232
- XX.—ERNEST LINDEN'S REMORSE. 245
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- XXI.—THE MEETING BESIDE THE DEAD CHILD. 253
- XXII.—THE CLAIRVOYANT AND HER GRACELESS GUEST. 262
- XXIII.—A STORMY INTERVIEW. 274
- XXIV.—AN OLD MAN'S DARLING. THE PLOTTERS. 282
- XXV.—A VOYAGE TO CUBA PLANNED AND AN ABDUCTION ARRANGED. 295
- XXVI.—CLARA VISITS HER MOTHER'S PROTEGES. 314
- XXVII.—WHAT ONE WOMAN CAN DO TOWARD MAKING A HOME WRETCHED. 325
- XXVIII.—AN INVOLUNTARY DEPARTURE. 334
- XXIX.—A STORM AT SEA, FOLLOWED BY A SUDDEN MARRIAGE. 343
- XXX.—VILLA MIRANDOLA, AND WHAT CLARA MET THERE. 357
- XXXI.—THE HELPLESS VICTIM TO A SYREN'S PLOT. AN UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENT. 365
- XXXII.—THE QUESTION SO OFTEN ASKED, "WHY DID HE MARRY HER!" IS AT LAST ANSWERED. 376
- CONCLUSION—ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. 390
