Sworn to silence : $b or, Aline Rodney's secret
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"Sworn to silence" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It blends gothic mystery and romantic melodrama around Aline Rodney, a high-spirited girl who stumbles into the dangerous secrets of her enigmatic neighbor, Oran Delaney, and his “haunted” mansion. The story promises a tale of secrecy, peril, and forbidden sympathy as a community searches while the heroine is compelled toward an oath that may bind her future.
The opening of the novel finds Aline punished and locked in her room while her family goes to a picnic; in a fit of pique she tosses a book out the window, accidentally striking their aloof neighbor, Oran Delaney. He coaxes her down a ladder to gather flowers and then to lunch in his grand, shuttered house, where terrifying shrieks erupt and a grotesque, veiled figure in a torn bridal gown attacks and stabs her. Aline awakens in a lavish blue room under a nurse’s care, while Delaney—also wounded—refuses to contact her family, insists she
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