Project Gutenberg 2017-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 80 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 Reading ease score: 80.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. 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.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 423420 423365 2024-11-22T13:03:04.260668 2023-09-23T12:15:29.783465 text/html text/html 427808 2017-04-18T18:29:46 text/html; charset=us-ascii 465831 2017-04-18T18:29:48 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 461345 2024-11-22T13:03:10.894665 application/epub+zip 467319 2024-11-22T13:03:05.182665 application/epub+zip 237840 2024-11-22T13:03:04.709733 application/epub+zip 623890 2024-11-22T13:03:15.483671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 581941 2024-11-22T13:03:10.306687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354381 2022-09-24T21:08:37.279163 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 389914 389873 2024-11-22T13:03:02.931650 2023-09-23T12:15:28.570455 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 390250 2017-04-18T18:29:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 147763 2017-04-18T18:29:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19690 2024-11-22T13:03:15.622624 application/rdf+xml 27582 2024-11-22T13:03:04.799732 image/jpeg 4200 2024-11-22T13:03:04.756652 image/jpeg 473246 2024-11-22T13:03:04.310764 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia