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GLORIA
A Novel
By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH
Author of
“The Unloved Wife,” “Lilith,” “Em,” “Em’s Husband,”
“For Whose Sake,” “Why Did He Wed Her?”
“The Bride’s Ordeal,” “Her Love or Her Life,” Etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK
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By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH
In Handsome Cloth Binding
Price 60 Cents per Volume
CAPITOLA’S PERIL
CRUEL AS THE GRAVE
“EM”
EM’S HUSBAND
FOR WHOSE SAKE
ISHMAEL
LILITH
THE BRIDE’S FATE
THE CHANGED BRIDES
THE HIDDEN HAND
THE UNLOVED WIFE
TRIED FOR HER LIFE
SELF-RAISED
WHY DID HE WED HER
GLORIA
DAVID LINDSAY
For Sale by all Booksellers or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price
A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS
52 Duane Street New York
Copyright, 1877 and 1891
By ROBERT BONNER’S SONS
Renewal granted to Mrs. Charlotte Southworth Lawrence, 1905
“GLORIA”
Printed by special arrangement with
STREET & SMITH
GLORIA
3 CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I
A SPOILED BEAUTY
Her eyes flashed fire! Convulsive rage possessed
Her trembling limbs and heaved her laboring breast;
Blind to the future, by this rage misled,
She pulled down ruin on her reckless head.
Dryden.
“David Lindsay, will you marry me?”
The spea
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