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100 1 _aChatterton, Georgiana, Lady,
_d1806-1876
245 1 4 _aThe lost bride; vol. 2
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-30
508 _aMWS, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The lost bride; vol. 2" by Lady Georgiana Chatterton is a novel written in the late 19th century. It blends Gothic atmosphere with romantic suspense around Castle Hall, where a vanished bride’s memory, a contentious new mistress, and whispers of smugglers stir old secrets. The story orbits a young female narrator and her shrewd Aunt Jane, the haunted figure of Dorina, the brooding Count Rossi, and the dazzling, dangerous Cunigunda, as a planned masquerade in a restored chapel threatens to awaken the past. The opening of the book follows the narrator and Aunt Jane exploring the ruins of Castle Hall, where the narrator glimpses a pale face at an oriel window and learns local lore of a “beautiful ghost.” As Aunt Jane gently steers her convalescent niece away from recent personal guilt, the narrator recounts the older tragedy of Dorina of Hohenstein, betrothed to Count Rossi, whose mysterious disappearance during an illuminated cave fête shadows all that follows and fuels suspicions about her cousin Cunigunda. Back at Castle Hall, Cunigunda insists on turning the old chapel into a ballroom despite a chilling scare in the gallery, while a blind villager hints at peril and smugglers’ legends revive. A furtive figure, Joe Naylor, leads accomplices through hidden stairs and a crypt marked “L D” to recover treasure from an old coffin, only to be spooked by a white apparition before they escape. The household then reels as servants report sightings of a pale lady and threaten to quit, while Count Rossi, skeptical yet unsettled, discovers a concealed door behind damask leading toward the orangery. At the same time, a restless Cunigunda draws the worldly Carlo into that very orangery, their secretive talk hinting at scandal as the chapter breaks. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Hurst & Blackett, 1872
653 _aInheritance and succession -- Fiction
653 _aYoung women -- Fiction
653 _aEnglish fiction -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/lostbride01chat https://archive.org/details/lostbride02chat https://archive.org/details/lostbride03chat
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78576
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