love

Janus Rechtsom, nicknamed De Mottige (The Pock-Marked), is a sturdy, honest seaman. He does his duty, drinks perhaps a drop too much, but has a heart of gold that belongs to Lena Doorn, the girl next-door. Lena, an orphan, spends much time with father Gijs and son Janus Rechtsom. She is now a governess looking after two children. Although engaged to Janus, she listens gladly to the flattery of Frans van Klarenberghe who, although of good family, is a rake for whom no woman is sacred. Frans tells Lena that she is far too good to marry a pock-marked sailor and that she was born to be a lady.

For some years Kate van Marlen has had a liaison with the profligate Count Alfred van der Loo, who accepts her passionate love but does not intend to marry her.

Margareet Barker loves Steven Wilmott, a medical student and her father's protégé. Before Mr Barker dies of heart-failure, he makes Steven promise to take care of his penniless daughter.

Marston, a successful lawyer, treats his wife with cold neglect, leaving her much in the society of young George Stanton, who is deeply in love with her.

Henry Wilmore, the "lord of the manor", recalls his son Lennard from Holland to marry Helen Plugenet, an heiress, in order to save the family fortunes.

Melodrama about a woman whose father forbids her to marry the man she loves.

Jess Newton, expecting to spend her holidays alone at her boarding school in England, receives a letter from her father asking her to come to him. Since the death of his wife, Mr Newton has been prospecting in Africa, where the discovery of a diamond mine has made him a wealthy man. At the railway station Jess is pestered by Hubert Clave, but protected by his cousin Bruce, the son of Lord Ravenhurst. It is next to the Ravenhurst estate that Newton has bought a mansion.

Annie falls in love with circus clown Pedro, but her father forbids their romance.

Lona, a young woman who has no memories of her past, has been adopted by the rich industrialist Van Haaften.

Romantic drama about the Venetian painter Mario Mari and his muse Pierette.

Prince Algabert, upholding the traditions of his forefathers, wages a ceaseless feud against the house of Rodembourg, whose reigning lord has one daughter, Elisabeth.