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INDEX

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[I] “Lightly Won is Lightly Lost.”[3]
[II] “Sweetheart, Name the Day for Me.”[11]
[III] The Moth and the Star[17]
[IV] “And Thou Wert Gay,—[22]
[V] The Mysterious Stranger[27]
[VI] Viola’s Repentance[34]
[VII] ’Twixt Love and Hate[42]
[VIII] Heart Struggles[47]
[IX] “A Man’s Heart is not Simply a Toy!”[50]
[X] Their Meeting[58]
[XI] Turning Over a New Leaf[62]
[XII] Hidden Grief[67]
[XIII] A Sweet Confession[72]
[XIV] Several Secrets[75]
[XV] Queen of Song and Love and Beauty[82]
[XVI] The Bridal-Eve[90]
[XVII] Viola’s Waterloo[98]
[XVIII] “I Drove Poor Viola to Her Death.”[104]
[XIX] A Coup D’État.[112]
[XX] “Was ever Maiden in This Humor Wooed?”[117]
[XXI] The Bride’s Home-Coming[122]
[XXII] “Go Back to your Haughty Bride.”[127]
[XXIII] Playing her Part[133]
[XXIV] The Letter that came too Late[138]
[XXV] “Had you Only Waited ’Till This Morning.”[143]
[XXVI] Only a Month[153]
[XXVII] Viola’s New Role[158]
[XXVIII] Viola’s Vindication[164]
[XXIX] Alienation[170]
[XXX] Rivals Still[176]
[XXXI] “Could Ye Come Back to Me, Douglas!”[182]
[XXXII] The Portrait[187]
[XXXIII] “Whom First We Love, We Seldom Wed.”[193]
[XXXIV] In Her Toils Again[200]
[XXXV] “It was Pique, not Love.”[205]
[XXXVI] Startling News[212]
[XXXVII] Bon Voyage[215]
[XXXVIII] “As Flies the Dove to seek its Mate.”[221]
[XXXIX] Hope Deferred maketh the Heart Sick[224]
[XL] “Cuba Libre”[229]
[XLI] “After Long Grief and Pain.”[234]

VIOLA’S VANITY

CHAPTER I.

“LIGHTLY WON IS LIGHTLY LOST.”

When the viols played their best,

Lamps above and laughs below,

“Love me,” sounded like a jest,

Fit for yes or fit for no.