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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XX
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And see, she sings: a wonderful voice.

And lower down, a duet with her daughter: violins and clarionet; how funny; something Hungarian.

And in the Second Part, Schubert's Ave Maria--Oh! when we hear that, we dissolve.

She was a singer before he married her, they say: a lady by birth one of the first County families.

But it was a gift, and she could not be kept from it, and was going, when they met--and it was love! the most perfect duet.


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