This is what he said after I sides with her

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The Cheery Man has ordered a table linen placed over his daughter. "Wretched way to go," he says, ruminatively. "I'm sorry for it. She should've stayed away, after you helped her. I gave 'er plenty of chances. But in the end, I s'pose this is what she chose." He shakes his head, staring down at her covered frame. "My own flesh and blood."