Lovice

This posthumous novel tells the tragic story of beautiful Lovice, a soft-hearted and long-suffering girl throwing all her affection on a man without one quality except physical beauty. When his fortunes seem in jeopardy, Lambert sacrifices the truest passion his selfish nature is capable of, and, while secretly engaged to Lovice, schemes to win an American heiress, rich but without beauty. Lovice immediately breaks the engagement, and in a moment of pique marries an old school-fellow who adores her, but whom she does not love. That Lovice,'s last words, on her death-bed, should name so contemptible a nidering as Lambert, is sad, though not absolutely inconsistent with the paradoxical nature of human passion.