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Ironically, it was Ella’s bold and venturesome spirit—the very
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thing that Frederic found so attractive about her—that came
between them. Ella’s dreadful stepmother had treated her like
a prisoner in her own home and forced her to spend nearly every
waking hour performing onerous tasks, like scrubbing grout or
chipping congealed mayonnaise from between fork tines. While
Ella suffered through all this, she dreamed of a more exhilarating
life. She fantasized about riding camels across deserts to search
ancient temples for magic lamps, or scaling cloud-covered peaks to
play games of chance with the rulers of hidden mountain kingdoms.
She honestly believed that anything could happen in her future.
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