[Gutenberg 43457] • The Popular Story of Blue Beard

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Their mother said, that the gentle man was agreeable in his conversation and manners; that the ugliness of his face, and the blue-beard, were defects which the would soon be reconciled to from hahit: that his immense riches would procure them every luxury their heart could desire; and he was so civil, that she was certain the scandalous re ports about his wives must be entirely without foundation.

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