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Excerpt from Asphodel, Vol. 2: A Novel
Ever smce she could remember, Daphne had feared her father much more than She loved him; but never had he seemed to her so awful a being as he appeared this morning in his own room, sur rounded by all the symbols Oi power - the bronze bust of Cicero looking down at him from the bookcase; his despatch-box open at his side, bristling with pen-knives and paper-knives, and stern Official stationery; his ponderous silver ink stand, presented by the Warwickshire yeomanry in acknowledgment Of his merits as colonel; his russia-leather bound dictionaries and directories, and brazen letter-weighing machine - and all the pomp and circumstance of his business life about him.
Well, Daphne, what do you want? He asked, looking at her without a ray Of sympathetic feeling in his handsome gray eyes.
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