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THE FIFTH STRING
then severely, "this must cease immediately."
She rose quietly and led her father over to the mantel. Placing a hand on each of his shoulders she said:
"Father, I will obey you implicitly if you can name a reasonable objection to the man I love. But you can not. I love him with my whole soul. I love him for the nobility of his character, and because there is none other in the world for him, nor for me."
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