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A mother and daughter meet an eligible bachelor at a fashionable resort, and are confused by his disinterested behavior.

A young woman and her mother find themselves in reduced circumstances after a fire that devastates New York City. The daughter is supported in her efforts to earn a living by an older female friend of the family, who narrates the story, and a mature…

The narrator offers a sketch of a bachelor who is loved by family and friends for his generosity and benevolence.

A mother tells her daughters the story of a young woman who decided to marry an older man of whom she was fond but not passionately in love.