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100 1 _aStirling, Adelaide
245 1 4 _aThe girl he loved
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aNew eagle series, no. 1174.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-30
508 _aDemian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)
520 _a"The Girl He Loved" by Adelaide Stirling is a novel written in the early 20th century. It charts a romantic drama of secret vows, pride, and social scheming, centering on Ravenel Annesley, her brother Tommy, their calculating stepmother Lady Annesley, the dashing Captain Adrian Gordon, and the cynical aristocrat Lord Levallion. Early signals point to a tale of love imperiled by class ambition and manipulation, with a vulnerable heroine forced to choose between her heart and her safety. The opening of the story introduces Ravenel and Tommy living under Lady Annesley’s tight control at Annesley Chase. Ravenel secretly pledges herself to Captain Adrian Gordon, accepts a distinctive emerald-and-opal ring, and agrees to a clandestine wedding at Effingham before his post to India—plans overheard by the stepmother’s spying maid. The ring mysteriously disappears after Lady Annesley outfits Ravenel in white for the duchess’s garden party; Adrian fails to appear, and Lord Levallion (intrigued and oddly protective) drives the distraught girl home, later coolly announcing that Gordon has sailed, which breaks her spirit. The duchess whisks Ravenel and Tommy to London, while Lady Annesley enlists Mrs. Hester Murray to wound Ravenel with “a bit of the truth,” implying Adrian has a wife; stung into icy pride, Ravenel dazzles at the duchess’s ball, where Levallion pointedly courts her and proposes marriage as an escape from Sylvia’s power. Reeling and bent on revenge—and to secure Tommy’s future—Ravenel accepts, setting the novel’s central conflict in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith, 1900
653 _aAmerican fiction -- 19th century
653 _aDime novels
653 _aRomance fiction
830 0 _aNew eagle series, no. 1174.
856 4 _uhttps://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:1198833
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77154
999 _c117876
_d117876