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Cheery tale of two happily unmarried sisters and the advent of a perfect housekeeper - who threatens to leave them for the German postman once she is sure her husband is dead ... Very pleasantly and well-written. (PB)
Tale of excessive bad luck - the heroine is too late for her mother's deathbed; misses her lover's proposal, her father's, son's and husband's deathbeds, and a friend at reconciliation with her faithful lover! Silly. (PB)
In the bush of Victoria a father is tragically repaid for saving his son from prison by falsely accusing his friend of the crime. Romance and murder follow when the two youths arrive at his station ... Includes an ex-convict and an honest woman. (PB)