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A farmer's son in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains turns carpenter after an apprenticeship to the fairies - and so wins his bride. Told by an Irish servant to her master's children in Australia, in brogue of varying thickness. (PB)
An American romance set in a small village. A poor parson pleads for the doctor's daughter, herself an M.D., under the guise of telling a story. This story he later tells to the narrator - who writes it without 'seasoning' e.g. murder, arsenic, etc. (PB)
A romance between a couple in their 70s is rekindled when he loses everything in a bank failure and she buys it back for him and his daughter. Set in a small English village. (PB)
Another tale of Dinglewood, the English village, regarding a relative of the Denzils' - young Llewellyn - and two 'sisters' who never went by their Christian names. A mistaken marriage proposal produces confusion for a time ... (PB)
A Frenchman of good birth leaves Paris for the USA to escape the French Revolution. There - in the Oneida country - an Indian woman saves him, he joins her tribe and marries her. (PB)