Unifying Contradiction

Once there was a gentle fisherman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things. He had likewise, by another wife, a young daughter, named 'Ella', but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was rumored to have been a mermaid.
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