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Who, and What, Has Not Failed_edited.pdf
The narrator reflects on responses to the US financial crisis of 1837, focusing on a family whose daughter is about to be married, and offers an alternative to panic and despair.

A Huguenot Family Edited.pdf
A story that chronicles the trials of the d’Argile family during the Catholic persecution of the Huguenots—French Protestants—in 1672 under the reign of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV.

NEW YEAR’S DAY [1836].pdf
A young woman is rewarded for her filial obedience with the love and respect of her family and community, and the hand of the young she loves.

New Year's Day [1846].pdf
A young man borrows money from his intended fiance's father and, after the stock market collapses, is estranged from her and family. Unbeknownst to the other, he works to repay her father, and she remains true to her love for him.

 Look Before You Leap 1846 edited.pdf
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.

BERKELEY JAIL edited DG.pdf
The narrator recounts the story of the Vassal family, whose only surviving member and an old family servant rescue a Native American man, held for the murder of a local white property owner.
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