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LOVE WORKS WONDERS.

A Novel.

by

BERTHA M. CLAY,

Author of

"Thrown on the World," Etc.


          "O you, that have the charge of Love,
             Keep him in rosy bondage bound,
           As in the Fields of Bliss above
             He sits with flowerets fetter'd round;
           Loose not a tie that round him clings,
           Nor ever let him use his wings;
           For even an hour, a minute's flight
           Will rob the plumes of half their light."
                                          MOORE.







New York:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers,
Street & Smith, New York Weekly.
MDCCCLXXVIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877,
By Street & Smith,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Francis S. Street,} _Proprietors and Publishers_
Francis S. Smith, }
Of the
New York Weekly,
The Leading Story and Sketch Paper of the Age.




          TO

          THE READERS OF THE

          NEW YORK WEEKLY,

          WHO FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS, HAVE
          STOOD FAITHFULLY BY US, CHEERING
          US IN OUR LABORS,
          AND BIDDING US
          GOD-SPEED;
          TO WHOM OUR
          PET JOURNAL HAS BECOME
          A HOUSEHOLD WORD, AND WITHOUT
          WHOSE AID WE COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
          NOTHING, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY

          DEDICATED

          BY THE PUBLISHERS,

          STREET & SMITH.




CONTENTS:


          CHAPTER.                                     PAGE.
                I.--A GIRL WITH A CHARACTER              9
               II.--"DARRELL COURT IS A PRISON TO ME!"  16
              III.--"YOUR GOOD SOCIETY IS ALL DECEIT"   28
               IV.--"YOU ARE GOING TO SPOIL MY LIFE"    35
                V.--PAULINE'S GOOD POINTS               42
               VI.--THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE PUPIL      47
              VII.--CAPTAIN LANGTON                     54
             VIII.--THE INTRODUCTION                    61
               IX.--THE BROKEN LILY                     67
                X.--PAULINE STILL INCORRIGIBLE          74
               XI.--HOW WILL IT END?                    81
              XII.--ELINOR ROCHEFORD                    87
             XIII.--SIR OSWALD THINKS OF MARRIAGE       94
              XIV.--PAULINE'S LOVE FOR DARRELL COURT   103
               XV.--BREACH BETWEEN UNCLE AND NIECE     108
              XVI.--THE QUEEN OF THE BALL              115
             XVII.--PAULINE'S BRIGHT FANCIES           122
            XVIII.--REJECTED                           128
              XIX.--PAULINE THREATENS VENGEANCE        142
               XX.--CAPTAIN LANGTON DESPERATE          148
              XXI.--MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY                 156
             XXII.--FULFILLING THE CONTRACT            163
            XXIII.--NO COMPROMISE WITH PAULINE         169
             XXIV.--A RICH GIFT DECLINED               176
              XXV.--A TRUE DARRELL                     183
             XXVI.--A PUZZLING QUESTION                189
            XXVII.--SIR OSWALD'S DOUBTS                196
           XXVIII.--READING OF THE WILL                203
             XXIX.--WAITING FOR REVENGE                209
              XXX.--WILL FATE AID PAULINE?             217
             XXXI.--FATE FAVORS PAULINE                225
            XXXII.--CAPTAIN LANGTON ACCEPTED           231
           XXXIII.--"I HAVE HAD MY REVENGE!"           239
            XXXIV.--THE STRANGER ON THE SANDS          247
             XXXV.--THE STORY OF ELAINE                253
            XXXVI.--REDEEMED BY LOVE                   260
           XXXVII.--PRIDE BROUGHT LOW                  267
          XXXVIII.--PAULINE AND LADY DARRELL           287
            XXXIX.--FACE TO FACE                       294
               XL.--DYING IN SIN                       303
              XLI.--THE