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