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A flirt runs off to London with a young baronet only to have their marriage circumvented by his uncle. Her loyal erstwhile swain follows her however, and they return to the village and marry. (PB)
Violet Germaine, a young girl of noble birth runs away with her art teacher and in the course of a couple of years lived in poverty and degradation. The eventual death of her husband and baby lead to insanity. (PB)
Set in a Victorian country town in 1853, a young police cadet arrests a local squatter, mistaking him for a desperate bushranger. Interesting for its description of sly-grogging on the diggings and police attempts to control it. (PB)