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By Patience and by Paper
Volume II

By Trade and by Trust

A man who cannot bring himself to cross one county goes halfway round the world instead. A woman is given precisely what she asked for.

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A brother crosses an ocean rather than a county. A sister is given precisely what she asked for, on a bare fell, with all the time in the world to consider it.

Newcastle, the Cape, Calcutta and Westmorland, and an office door opened by a girl of seven who names the whole concern by accident. The accounts of the first volume are opened, and found still running.

Length
About 100,000 words
Angst
Medium to high
Reader advisory
An unhappy marriage that improves, a frank discussion of a dowry, and one bolted door.
Happily ever after
Yes, and then some.

Reading Order

One story in three volumes. A lie told in a London parlour takes eighteen years, two continents and an entire family to set down again.

  1. Volume I By Fable and by Fact
  2. Volume II By Trade and by TrustThis book
  3. Volume III By Harbour and by Hearth

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