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...Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know. Her father philosophically consoles himself with the thought that he had always wanted grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captain Daughter | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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