A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant.

Contains:

• The Young Man with the Carnation
• Sorrow-Acre
• The Heroine
• The Sailor-Boy's Tale
• The Pearls
• The Invincible Slave-Owners
• The Dreaming Child
• Alkmene
• The Fish
• Peter and Rosa
• A Consolatory Tale