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Valerie was, in my opinion, not as good as its companion in this volume. It is set in Napoleonic France, and Marryat probably understood almost as much about France and its culture as he did about Canada, although I may be overstating that. There is a great deal of child abuse, Valerie being a scapegoat child, and due to the complete power that parents held over children at the time (according to Marryat), the girl escapes only by staging her own death-by-drowning and being concealed by a wealthy young widow acquaintance of her father's commanding officer. When she is then courted by an entirely slimy character who runs tame in the guardian's house and whom she turns down, and who then swears her to secrecy with the evident intention -- completely unsuspected by the innocent Valerie, who seems to have very little actual character -- of courting her guardian, I had had more than enough.