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Within the Tides

CHAPTER V
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My daughter knew him from childhood.

I am a busy man, and I confess that their engagement was a complete surprise to me.
I wish their reasons for that step had been more naive.

But simplicity was out of fashion in their set.

From a worldly point of view he seems to have been a mere baby.

Of course, now, I am assured that he is the victim of his noble confidence in the rectitude of his kind.


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