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Book Excerpt: e who could talk like that about his own child."He smiled softly."You have the quality," he said, "which I admire most in your sex, andfind most seldom. You are candid. You come from a little world wheresentiment almost governs life. It is not so here. I am a kind man, Ibelieve, but I am also just. My daughter deceived me, and for deceit Ihave no forgiveness. Do you still think me cruel, Virginia?""I am wondering," she answered frankly. "You see, I have read about youin the papers, and I was terribly frightened when mother told me that Iwas to come. Directly I saw you, you seemed quite a different person, and now again I am afraid.""Ah!" he sighed, "that terrible Press of ours! They told you, I suppose, that I was hard, unscrupulous, unforgiving, a money-making machine, andall the rest of it. Do you think that I look like that, Virginia?""I am very sure that you do not," she answered."You will know me better, I hope, in a year or so's time," he said. "Ifyou wish to please me, tRead Mo
