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'What is it, my daughter ?' he asked, when he saw her. 'You have been crying -- are you not happy ?' 'Father,' she said, 'I have come to ask you to marry the countess' -- (for that was the lady's real title) -- ' if you do not she will leave us, and then I shall be as lonely as before. You have never refused me what I have asked before, do not refuse me now.' |
