True Hearts Are More Than Coronets (1908)
"True hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood." Two lovers, a young farmer and a pretty but very shy country girl, are seated on a fence which divides their two farms. The young man makes love to her, gives her a tintype of himself, which she is admiring when her father passes along. They tell the old man of their love affair, ask and get his consent to their marriage and secure his promise of assistance in obtaining the sanction of the mother, who is evidently the "power" of the family. They pass two city chaps, apparently surveyors or prospectors, who examine the rocks and soil and are delighted and all excitement over the result of their examination. The old farmer and his daughter with her lover reach the home. The mother is asked for her consent to the marriage. Indifferently she answers "yes," implying that their poverty forces her to agree to the union. In the meantime the prospectors find traces of valuable ore, repair to the farmhouse and agree to purchase the land for a fabulous amount. The papers are signed and delivered, the money paid over. The mother, now that she is wealthy, separates the lovers, and, determining that her daughter shall make a brilliant marriage, orders the young farmer away. The daughter pleads, but to no avail. A lapse of two months finds the former farmer and his family in a gorgeous suite in a Parisian hotel. A French Count is endeavoring to make love to the girl. She resents his attentions, but the ambitious mother aids the suitor and demands that her daughter accept him. The nobleman showers presents upon the girl, among them a costly diamond necklace. The changed surroundings are distasteful alike to father and daughter, and she pleads with her parent to take her back home. At a fancy dress ball the Count is bestowing his attentions, aided by the mother, and in utter hopelessness and despair, the poor girl consents to the union. She leaves the room heartsick, and when alone weeps bitterly over her unfortunate position. Her mother enters, upbraids and scolds her. Unable to further stand this constant nagging from her parent, in desperation she throws the necklace and presents away and determines to remain true and steadfast to her first love. During this period things have changed at the old farm. The adjoining land, that of the young lover, proves to be the one containing the vein of ore, but he, ignorant of the fact, leaves home and starts for Paris to see his former sweetheart. Upon arrival in the city he meets friends who tell him of his good fortune, show a cablegram asking for his whereabouts, and also tell him that his old sweetheart still loves him. She is sent for and the lovers are soon in fond embrace. The father appears shortly afterward and is overjoyed at the turn of affairs. The mother comes in, is about to rave, but father stops her. The cablegram containing the good news is shown to her, and she quietly seats herself, resolved to let true love take its own course.
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