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A Daily Rate

by Grace Livingston Hill

Imagine inheriting a fortune from a long-lost relative, but with one catch: you must spend it all within a year. That's the predicament Celia Murray faces in Grace Livingston Hill's heartwarming classic, A Daily Rate. Celia is a young woman who has been struggling to make ends meet. She lives with her aunt in a boarding house and works as a seamstress. One day, she receives a letter informing her that she has inherited a fortune from a distant relative. However, there is one condition: she must spend the entire inheritance within a year.

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English

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English

Published In

1900

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Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. Her characters wer...

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