Phineas Finn

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She had lost, by constant dwelling on the subject, her power of seeing how the idea would strike the feelings of another person.

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Forster, Ada.

A young orphan, an heiress and a beauty, who went to live with a distant relative in Kentucky just before the Civil War. Although she sympathized with the Union cause, she fell in love with Tom Reckenthorpe, a general in the Confederate Army, and, when he returned from the war, married him.

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