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 "When the credulous man had recovered a little from his astonishment, I asked him, if he could explain the meaning of the ghost's answer, and whether it was in his power to perform the condition he had hinted at: Upon which he silently nodded to me, and promised to pay me a visit early in the morning, which he did at six o'clock, confessing his cruelty towards his daughter, which he believed had provoked the resentment of the monk, and pleaded the poverty of the young man, and the cool indifference he had treated his daughter with ever since his offers had been rejected."

"Now," added he, I see every thing in its proper light; the ghost has entirely opened my eyes, blinded by avarice: God be praised that the young man has not yet left my house, as he intended to do, for it would then give much room for scandal, if he should marry my daughter, which I am very well convinced cannot be avoided,