The narrator, an orphan girl brought up in a dull house on Varick Street in New York, has a stroke of good luck that opens a wider world to her, with new companions and a tutor. Soon she is torn between a fascinating man of uncertain character and the patient, faithful Richard Vandermarck, while her friend Pauline faces her own unhappy love.
A popular American domestic romance of 1871 by the author of Rutledge. Download the free EPUB.