Project Gutenberg 2025-06-29 Public domain in the USA. 202 Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1850 1937 Miller, Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller, Alexander McVeigh, Mrs. Point, Mittie Frances Clarke Miller, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Slighted love : $b or, At her heart's expense $aNew York :$bStreet & Smith, $c1931. Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) "Slighted love : or, At her heart's expense" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Italy Vale, a striking young woman determined to clear her mother’s name after her father’s murder, as she enters her wealthy kinsman’s New England home and confronts old scandals, dangerous secrets, and fraught romances. The story weaves melodrama and mystery around inheritance, social stigma, and the hazards of love, with key figures including the reserved heir Francis Murray, the charming Percy Seabright, and the volatile Mrs. Dunn. The opening of the story reveals Italy’s mother confessing that Italy’s father was murdered and that she herself was tried and acquitted, yet condemned by public opinion; years later, after her mother’s death, Italy goes to Francis Murray’s seaside estate, The Lodge, suspecting him because he benefited from the entail. Tension rises as Italy somnambulates into his library in search of her father’s missing diary, Francis confronts her motives, and she flees to Boston to seek her mother’s old lawyer. There she is deceived by a clerk, Craig Severn, lured to a private house, and nearly assaulted before a mysterious shot kills him; found later walking in her sleep, she is retrieved by Francis and brought back. She meets Percy Seabright—her father’s friend—and faints; newspapers soon report Severn’s body found with a bullet wound. Emmett Harlow gently courts Italy and is refused, while jealous Alys Audenreid and her aunt Mrs. Dunn bristle; during a yacht outing Italy is pushed overboard, rescued by Ralph Allen and Francis, and Mrs. Dunn spitefully accuses Emmett before Francis quells the charge. These chapters set the central quest—finding the truth behind the murder and the missing diary—amid simmering jealousy, peril, and uncertain loyalties. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:1104843 20241208032756miller 1931 us Reading ease score: 80.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Dime novels American fiction Romance fiction PS Text Category: Romance Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 476047 2025-07-30T08:04:51.602648 text/html 451055 2025-06-29T11:27:34 text/html 478049 2025-07-30T08:04:59.476642 application/epub+zip 475090 2025-07-30T08:04:52.743668 application/epub+zip 313301 2025-07-30T08:04:52.183642 application/epub+zip 589580 2025-07-30T08:05:04.148604 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 551965 2025-07-30T08:04:58.870617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 426660 2025-07-30T08:04:50.125712 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 406803 2025-06-29T11:27:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14530 2025-07-30T08:05:04.299650 application/rdf+xml 11735 2025-07-30T08:04:52.329654 image/jpeg 2278 2025-07-30T08:04:52.255647 image/jpeg 431670 2025-07-30T08:04:51.656706 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