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on his shining cranium and asked, "Are you confident he loves her?"
"No. Even if he does not, he no doubt makes the pretense, and she believes him. A man who fiddles for money is not likely to ignore an opportunity to angle for the same commodity," and the banker, with a look of scorn on his face, threw himself back into the chair.
"Does she know that you do not approve of this man?"
"I told her that I desired the musician's visits to cease."
"And her answer?"
"She said she would obey me if I could name one reasonable objection to the man, and then, with an air of absolute confidence in the impossibility of such a contingency, added, 'But you can not.'"
"Yes, but you must," said Sanders. "Mildred is strangely constituted. If
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