Project Gutenberg 2017-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 155 Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1850 1937 Miller, Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller, Alexander McVeigh, Mrs. Point, Mittie Frances Clarke Miller, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh An Old Man's Darling Produced by Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "An Old Man's Darling" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel likely written in the late 19th century. The story centers around Bonnibel Vere, a young and beautiful girl enjoying the summer sun at Cape May, who becomes entangled in matters of love, fortune-telling, and fate. The opening chapters introduce her encounter with a mysterious old woman, who prophesies a troubling future intertwined with love and sorrow, setting the stage for tension between Bonnibel's desires and the men who seek her. At the start of the novel, we meet Bonnibel as she enjoys a carefree day by the seashore. Her pleasant moments are disrupted by an old hag who reads her palm, giving an ominous warning about sorrow linked to her beauty and foreshadowing a fate where she will be “an old man's darling.” Following this strange encounter, Bonnibel's relationship with Leslie Dane, a young artist, blossoms amidst familial obstacles posed by her wealthy uncle, who disapproves of the match. As the narrative unfolds, themes of love, socioeconomic disparity, and the fragile nature of happiness emerge, culminating in escalating tensions that suggest a gripping tale of passion, loss, and resilience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Romance Category: Novels 423538 2025-06-21T15:43:24.705766 text/html 407415 2024-10-23T02:00:04 text/html 461407 2025-06-21T15:43:31.715684 application/epub+zip 467288 2025-06-21T15:43:25.726877 application/epub+zip 237822 2025-06-21T15:43:25.206766 application/epub+zip 623780 2025-06-21T15:43:36.382671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 581941 2025-06-21T15:43:31.090694 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354381 2022-09-24T21:08:37.279163 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 389914 2025-06-21T15:43:23.435731 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 369981 2024-10-23T02:00:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16392 2025-06-21T15:43:36.544680 application/rdf+xml 27582 2025-06-21T15:43:25.311722 image/jpeg 4200 2025-06-21T15:43:25.258736 image/jpeg 473280 2025-06-21T15:43:24.757792 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia