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Title: Vera Nevill
Poor Wisdom's Chance

Author: Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron

Release Date: May 14, 2006 [EBook #18385]

Language: English

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VERA NEVILL;

OR, POOR WISDOM'S CHANCE.

_A NOVEL_.

BY MRS. H. LOVETT CAMERON

Author of "Pure Gold," "In a Grass Country," etc., etc.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
1893.

"No. Vain, alas! th' endeavour
From bonds so sweet to sever.
Poor Wisdom's Chance
Against a glance
Is now as weak as ever."

_Moore's Melodies_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. The Vicar's Family

CHAPTER II. Kynaston Hall

CHAPTER III. Fanning Dead Ashes

CHAPTER IV. The Lay Rector

CHAPTER V. "Little Pitchers"

CHAPTER VI. A Soiree at Walpole Lodge

CHAPTER VII. Evening Reveries

CHAPTER VIII. The Member for Meadowshire

CHAPTER IX. Engaged

CHAPTER X. A Meeting on the Stairs

CHAPTER XI. An Idle Morning

CHAPTER XII. The Meet at Shadonake

CHAPTER XIII. Peacock's Feathers

CHAPTER XIV. Her Wedding Dress

CHAPTER XV. Vera's Message

CHAPTER XVI. "Poor Wisdom"

CHAPTER XVII. An Unlucky Love-Letter

CHAPTER XVIII. Lady Kynaston's Plans

CHAPTER XIX. What She Waited For

CHAPTER XX. A Morning Walk

CHAPTER XXI. Maurice's Intercession

CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Pryme's Visitors

CHAPTER XXIII. A White Sunshade

CHAPTER XXIV. Her Son's Secret

CHAPTER XXV. St. Paul's, Knightsbridge

CHAPTER XXVI. The Russia-Leather Case

CHAPTER XXVII. Dinner at Ranelagh

CHAPTER XXVIII. Mrs. Hazeldine's "Long Eliza"

CHAPTER XXIX. A Wedding Tour

CHAPTER XXX. "If I could Die!"