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Excerpt from Miss. Frances Merley: A Novel
What use was the sea to him? He was n't trading on it; just off sailing, for his pleasure. Poor fellow! If he had never owned a yacht, and just stayed home and worked away steadily at that business of his, why, there wan't a man, Frances, Of his age in the city that had a richer future than he had, - with those South American connections so well established.
Despite the tenderness of Luther's references to her father, this purely commercial estimate Of him gave Frances a notion Of an invasion of the memory that was sacred to her; a slight feeling of indignation was aroused, that brought a deeper color into her cheeks.
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