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A shepherd meets a radiant stranger who vanishes whenever he questions her.
A Union soldier returns to the Tennessee home he left after a bitter family split.
Sheltering from a storm, a fearful forester says wicked men frighten him more than wild beasts—then a cry comes from outside.
A solitary landowner explains how love entered his friends’ household and remained unspoken while duty and hesitation consumed the years.
An idle landscape painter befriends two sisters and finds love complicated by a fierce argument over art, work, and social duty.
A merchant who signed bank audits he never read cannot understand why the law treats carelessness as complicity.
Stranded by a blizzard beside a suicide, a young magistrate begins to see the hidden ties between official duty and human suffering.
During Holy Week, an ailing bishop longs to meet his visiting mother as a son rather than as the distant office everyone sees.
A space Scanner temporarily regains his senses and learns that his own guild plans to kill the man who could make their sacrifice obsolete.
In a Corsican mountain pass, a traveller hears how a timid orphan became the island’s most feared outlaw.
Hussars holding a ruined village turn Twelfth Night into an improvised feast before war abruptly reclaims the evening.
A devoted hunter arrives late for the annual guillemot shoot carrying an obligation that tests the limits of his sporting priorities.
A dying Norman farmer entrusts his son with an address, a secret household, and an obligation no legal will records.
During a winter retreat, a resourceful French lieutenant risks his mission to carry a freezing young woman through enemy-held country.
An exhausted French detachment facing a deadly winter march finds unexpected resolve after taking two civilians under its protection.
A stranger on a train recounts a second life in a future world, where love and private happiness stand against an approaching global war.
A sleepless man dreams of an ancient polar city where his sharp eyes earn him a military watch on which an entire people depends.
A Wall Street copyist answers every request with "I would prefer not to" — and never leaves.
To keep a promise, a Klondike traveler carries a friend's heavy bag through storms, rapids, and a mountain pass.
Eveline must decide whether to leave her family and sail away with the man she hopes to marry.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
A teenage mail carrier stops at a dance and finds that his horse and mailbag have vanished.
A banished young Sienese entrusts his sister to the rival who toppled their family.
An embattled French countess seeks a dream that will decide whether she can forgive the man she loves.
