title: Family Treasures: Creating Strong Families
author: John DeFrain
description: This book on creating strong families of all kinds was created by a statewide team of University of Nebraska?Lincoln Extension specialists and educators whose work focuses on the positive development of children, youth and families. The UNL for Families team was recently given an Annie E. Casey Foundation/4-H Youth Development Strengthening Families Award for its efforts.
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  STORIES
  BY ENGLISH AUTHORS IN ITALY
  
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  A FAITHFUL RETAINER
  BY JAMES PAYN
  When I lived in the country,--which was a long time ago,--our nearest
  neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the
  country indeed, and the family were greatly "respected"; though not, so far
  as I could discern, for any particular reason, except from their having been
  there for several generations. People are supposed to improve, like wine,
  from keeping--even if they are rather "ordinary" at starting; and the
  Luscombes, at the time I knew them, were considered quite a "vintage"
  family. They had begun in Charles II.'s time, and dated their descent from
  greatness in the female line. That they had managed to keep a great estate
  not very much impaired so long was certainly a proof of great cleverness,
  since there had been many spend-thrifts among them; but fortunately there
  had been a miser or two, who had restored the average, and their fortunes.
  Mr. Roger Luscombe, the prese