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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Manifest Destiny, by Julia Magruder This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Manifest Destiny Author: Julia Magruder Release Date: November 13, 2009 [EBook #30464] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MANIFEST DESTINY *** Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) A Manifest Destiny BY JULIA MAGRUDER AUTHOR OF "A MAGNIFICENT PLEBEIAN" ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1900 Copyright, 1900, by JULIA MAGRUDER. _All rights reserved._ [Illustration: Page 16 "BETTINA THREW BACK HER VEIL"] ILLUSTRATIONS "BETTINA THREW BACK HER VEIL" _Frontispiece_ SHE SANK BACK IN HER CHAIR _Facing p._ 34 "'AND WHO IS THIS HANDSOME BOY?'" " 60 "'THE MONEY WAS PARTLY MY OWN'" " 100 "THE VERY SPIRIT OF WIDOWHOOD" " 168 "'TRULY, MY CHILD, IT IS A WRETCHED STORY'" " 190 A MANIFEST DESTINY CHAPTER I Bettina Mowbray, walking the deck of the ocean steamer bound for England, was aware that she was observed with interest by a great many pairs of eyes. Certainly the possessors of these eyes were not more interested in her than she was in the interpretation of their glances. It was, indeed, of the first importance to her to know that she was being especially noticed by the men and women of the world, who in large part made up the passenger list, since her beauty was her one endowment for the position in the great world which all her life she had intended and expected to occupy. She was anxious, therefore, to know whether the personal appearance which had been rated so high in the obscure places hitherto known to her would or would not hold its own when she got out into life, as it were. Therefore, as Miss Mowbray paced the deck, at the side of the erect elderly woman who had been her nurse and
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