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The soldier's orphans

Chapter 1: THE SOLDIER’S ORPHANS.
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A struggling family—an elderly grandmother and her grandchildren—cope with poverty after displacement to an attic, sustaining themselves with small comforts while awaiting news of the children's soldier father. The narrative follows their efforts to raise money at a fair, encounters with charity and deceit, the father's wartime fate, and the consequences when an unscrupulous relative and other villains exploit their misfortune. Parallel threads trace the youths' resourcefulness, a newsboy's assistance, developing romances, confrontations with fraud and malice, and revelations that resolve social and financial threats, leading to alliances and eventual domestic stability.

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Title: The soldier's orphans

Author: Ann S. Stephens

Release date: March 4, 2025 [eBook #75522]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: T. B. Peterson, 1866

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THE
SOLDIER’S ORPHANS.

BY
MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS.
AUTHOR OF “THE GOLD BRICK,” “FASHION AND FAMINE,” “MARY DERWENT,” “THE OLD HOMESTEAD,” “THE REJECTED WIFE,” “THE HEIRESS,” “WIFE’S SECRET,” “SILENT STRUGGLES.”
Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS;
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.