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A musician Philip Arne discovers a child abandoned on a door-step, raises her and teaches her to sing and falls in love with her. In Italy she falls in love with an Englishman who spurns her when he learns Phillip is not her brother, and she is disfigured in a fire which kills Phillip. (PB)