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uddenly the merchant lost his fortune,
the sole property which remained to him
being a small house in the country, a long
way from the capital. With tears he broke
it to his children that they would have
to move to this house, where by working like
peasants they might just be able to live.
The two elder girls replied that they did not
wish to leave the town, and that they had several
admirers who would be only too happy to marry
them, notwithstanding their loss of fortune. But
the simple maidens were mistaken: their
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