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“I was certain my father saw things as I did, and I wondered how wrong it must have felt to see the best of you emerge in this way, in the place you didn't expect, indeed in the place your whole world depends on it never appearing.”

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“But she needed a husband because Virginia still operated on the code of gentlemen, meaning there were still things beyond her, places she could not go, deals she could not be party to. And so those two needed each other--Maynard an intelligent partner to save his land and estate, Corrine a gentleman to represent her interests.”

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“But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming amid those books?”

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“Almost any tasking man at Lockless would have traded his life for mine. But there was a weight of being so close to them, the weight that Thena had tried to warn me about, but something more, the crushing weight of seeing how the Quality truly lived, in all their luxury, and how much they really took from us.”

Chapter 3 The Water Dancer

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