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"There is no use
going farther. Let me carry that to your father, and he too will say so."
"I have a reason for working out our plan," she said.
"Yes? May I know?" he asked.
"Surely!" she answered. "You remember what you told me about the Minturns.
I can't live in a city and not have my feelings harrowed every day, and
while I'd like to change everything wrong, I know I can't all of it, so
what I can't cope with must be put aside; but this refuses, it is
insistent. When you really think of it, that is so _dreadful_, Douglas. If
they once felt what we do now, could it _all_ go? There must be something
left! You mention him oftener than any other one man, so you must admire
him deeply; I know her as well as any woman I meet in society, better than
most; I had thought of asking them to be the judges. She is interested in
music and art; it would please her and be perfectly natural for me to ask
her; you are on intimate terms with him from your offices being opposite;
there could be no suspicion of any ulterior motive in having them.


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