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The Lady's Death

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Hearing that Silvertongue has been hanged at Tyburn for the murder of her husband, the faithless wife commits suicide. She has returned to her father's home, bribed a dim-witted manservant to buy her some poison and swallowed it. An apothecary, called in too late to administer an antidote, berates the servant for buying the poison. An aged maid holds up the dying woman's daughter to kiss her mother goodbye. Since the couple had no son, the title which the wife's father had bought through the marriage contract cannot be perpetuated. The merchant venally removes the ring from his daughter's finger as though to salvage something of value from the marriage à la mode.
 
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