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_aMiller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs., _d1850-1937 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aSworn to silence |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 490 | 1 | _aThe sweetheart series | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-01-25 | ||
| 508 | _aDemian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) | ||
| 520 | _a"Sworn to silence" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It blends gothic mystery and romantic melodrama around Aline Rodney, a high-spirited girl who stumbles into the dangerous secrets of her enigmatic neighbor, Oran Delaney, and his “haunted” mansion. The story promises a tale of secrecy, peril, and forbidden sympathy as a community searches while the heroine is compelled toward an oath that may bind her future. The opening of the novel finds Aline punished and locked in her room while her family goes to a picnic; in a fit of pique she tosses a book out the window, accidentally striking their aloof neighbor, Oran Delaney. He coaxes her down a ladder to gather flowers and then to lunch in his grand, shuttered house, where terrifying shrieks erupt and a grotesque, veiled figure in a torn bridal gown attacks and stabs her. Aline awakens in a lavish blue room under a nurse’s care, while Delaney—also wounded—refuses to contact her family, insists she remain hidden until healed, and hints she must be sworn to silence before release. As he brings flowers and reads to calm her, the household next door descends into panic: searches spread, her mother falls ill, and the town is gripped by the mystery. A visiting physician, Dr. Anthony, then tells Aline’s sister Effie how a masked stranger abducted him to a grand house to treat a beautiful, unconscious girl who matches Aline’s description, deepening the sense that the truth lies very near yet out of reach. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: George Munro's Sons, 1883 |
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| 653 | _aAmerican fiction -- 19th century | ||
| 653 | _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aDime novels | ||
| 653 | _aPopular literature | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aThe sweetheart series | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:1107609 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77775 |
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