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     As a daughter of the Old Blood of the Prytani, Ygrayne had always expected that she would choose when, if, and whom she would marry. Such was every woman's right, according to the Old Ways, of which her family stood steadfast as guardians. The Norrani, ancient conquerors and then overlords of the Prytani, had possessed rather more patriarchal ideas about the arrangement of marriages, and had spread their odd ideas throughout the lands of Prytania for centuries, but the Old Blood had kept the Old Ways through the long Norrani occupation....

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