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Dollie Varden, a ballet-girl in the theatre in the 1860s has a New Year's dinner with the theatre call boy, thinking of her separated doctor husband. An accident during the pantomime reunites them ... (PB)
Wife, daughter and grand-daughter of the rich but stern Allan Moran leave him alone - the first dying in childbirth, the second eloping with an adventurer, and the third he refuses to see until he is sick, old and alone when she returns to comfort him. Never escapes generalised narrative - somehow removed, foggy. (PB)
In a seaside village (probably English), a retired sea captain is obliged to bring his daughter home when the aunt who had been caring for her died. She quickly improves his life but when he decides to reward her with a husband he finds she has her own ideas. Pleasant. (PB)
Innocent Grace Leaston discovers her true name, love, and death with the advent of the noble Lester Synnot to her harsh father's bush farm near the Coliban River. Includes ghostly apparitions bushrangers and a revenge plot.
Patchy account of the reunion of three girls from Napoleon I's school of the Legion of Honour near Paris - and of the reverses of fortune they each experience. (PB)
Brief account of the revival of a French highwayman broken upon the wheel at Orleans in 1747, and his life with no legs and one arm - still robbing and murdering. (PB)