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The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.
The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.
A couple discuss techniques for writing thank you letters.
Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
Bertie Steffink takes action against his disapproving relatives.
James Cushat-Prinkly reluctantly sets off for afternoon tea with the girl he intends to marry.
A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
Octavian Ruttle's guilt over his killing of a chicken-stealing cat is not helped by the growing hatred of its owner's children.
Alethia Debchance, raised on a strict diet of romance novels, leaves home for the first time to visit her distant cousin Robert, an aspiring politician.
The government's success in a by-election becomes dependant on the acquittal of an obviously guilty man.
Sir Lulworth Quayne reflects on some of the enterprising but thwarted plans made by the Suffragettes to further their cause.
At an extended house party everyone gets along splendidly with one another - except a certain Mrs. Pentherby.
An author, at work on the third chapter of his eighth novel, is interrupted by an encyclopaedia salesman.
Mrs. Hatch-Mallard takes her rivalry with Mrs. Dole into the realm of the supernatural.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
