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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.