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"Of course, my father is angry, for reasons which I need not set down.
This I expected, but he said some things which I wish he had left unsaid, for they made me answer him as I ought not to have done.

Fathers and daughters look at marriage from such different standpoints; what is excellent in their eyes may be as bad as death, or in some cases worse to the woman who of course must pay the price.

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