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Excerpt from Miss. Frances Merley: A Novel What use was the sea to him? He was n't trading on it; just off sailing, for his pleasure. Poor fellow! If he had never owned a yacht, and just stayed home and worked away steadily at that business of his, why, there wan't a man, Frances, Of his age in the city that had a richer future than he had, - with those South American connections so well established. Despite the tenderness of Luther's references to her father, this purely commercial estimate Of him gave Frances a notion Of an invasion of the memory that was sacred to her; a slight feeling of indignation was aroused, that brought a deeper color into her cheeks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.