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 "I know, Mr. Volkert," added she, "that you are in high favor with the Devil, and entreat you to raise up one of the angels of darkness, commanding him to appear to my daughter, and to threaten her to carry her to hell if she will not desist from her intended marriage."

"Shocked at that infernal proposal I was going to throw the money at her feet; would to God I had done it! but three ducats more soothed my indignation, and allured me to promise that I would take the matter into consideration, and inform her of the result of it the following day."

"I kept my promise, enjoining the woman to tell her daughter, as a secret, that her deceased father had, on his death bed, compelled her to make a solemn promise, never to consent to that marriage: She readily executed my order, and the poor girl was overwhelmed with grief"