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19 There was a rich widow who had an only daughter, the sole heiress of all her large possessions. An old priest courted the widow,

and so overcome her by promises of marriage that she disenherited her daughter, and made all her estate over to him, after which he rejecting her, she stabbed herself; and the old priest turned the daughter out of doors.