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A young man hides declarations of love inside the roar of a sled ride, leaving a frightened girl unsure whether hope or the wind is speaking.
Nine years after a joyful summer confession, a wealthy woman measures the life she let class and hesitation decide for her.
A failed hunting trip brings a ruined prince to the edge of an estate owned by the wealthy woman he once refused to marry.
A barber learns midway through a free haircut that poverty has cost him the woman he loves.
A scholar hires a French teacher to advance his research, but discovers that attraction is much easier than conjugation.
A dressmaker’s daughter shops for trimmings while a devoted clerk warns that the student she loves may never treat her as an equal.
A laboring woman meets the husband who rarely comes home and asks him to stay, if only for a day.
Newly married to a wealthy older colonel, a young woman remains fixated on the indifferent friend she once hoped to marry.
On his last night in the country, a young statistician walks into the moonlit mist with his host’s daughter and an unexpected confession.
A boy’s holiday glow collapses when his father reveals that the girl he loves has chosen someone else.
In a small Michigan town, Liz Coates builds a private romance around the blacksmith whose return from a hunting trip changes everything.
An old woman explains why a ring of a child’s blond hair has made her consider herself a widow all her life.
An aging servant’s daily walk with his mistress prompts a question about thirty-five years of loyalty—and an answer neither has voiced.
A doctor’s attempt to awaken an intellectually disabled girl’s mind leads her family into a marriage that makes affection another form of confinement.
A wandering painter befriends an eccentric Englishwoman on the Normandy coast and discovers the feeling beneath her reserve.
A country doctor recounts the lifelong devotion of an itinerant chair mender to a village chemist.
At a Norman farm, a baron explains why the tenant who serves him faithfully also makes him feel like a forgiven culprit.
Two homesick Breton soldiers share every Sunday—until a cowgirl’s kindness divides them.
On a carefully cultivated tour of Rome, a refined schoolteacher meets an ideal companion—until one social detail tests her affection.
A housemaid watches her respectable fiancé rise in the world—and begin to treat their long engagement as something beneath him.
A solitary bank clerk forms an unexpected friendship with a married woman and must decide how close to let her come.
A boy promises to bring a gift from a bazaar to the girl he adores, and waits for his chance to go.
A shopkeeper develops feelings for a married locksmith and struggles with what her priest calls sin.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
