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Domestic tale of Maggie, a young maid's fidelity and love for her poor French mistress. She saves to buy her a Christmas present - a bon bon box in the shape of Napoleon's hat, and saves her and the box from a fire in her mistress' block of flats on Christmas Eve. In hospital her mistress is reunited with her fiancee thought dead in the Franco-Prussian war - and Maggie is promoted to lady's maid. Maggie is compensated for her poverty in the tale by a warm family life - which her exiled mistress does not have; her loving heart; and the freedom from convention which the poor 'enjoy'. (PB)
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