The Unloved Wife

Excerpt: IT was a splendid spectacle, that famous masquerade ball, which was given as the valedictory of the old and the salutatory of the new year, at the opening of one of the most brilliant seasons our national capital had ever seen. A great war had ended. A renowned military commander was at the head of our government, with a council selected from among the most eminent statesmen of the nation, and a diplomatic corps of the most distinguished ministers from foreign countries. About the Author: "Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819~1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era.