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A young doctor asks a lawyer for his daughter's hand in marriage. He is refused as the father hopes to profit from her marriage. Consequently they are banned from seeing each other and the daughter is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Subsequntly, she is betrothed to Squire Devereaux, an older man, purely for fiscal purposes. The end to this short story holds many surprises.
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