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Annie Ashmole is shortly to be married and rejoices to give her pure love into safe keeping. A charity visit introduces her to a dying mother - and the picture of her seducer is that of Annie's fiancee. (PB)
Fanny Crawford marries against her father's wishes and he disowns her. Her husband, Logan, falls into dissipation and deserts her and her child for Australia. She works herself almost to death but the intervention of a kind Quaker softens her father's heart ... (PB)