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Once upon a time there was a man who had fine houses, both in town and / country, a deal of silver and gold plate, carved furniture, and coaches / gilded all over. But unhappily this man had a blue beard, which made him / so ugly and so terrible that all the women and girls ran away from him.
One of his neighbors, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were / perfect beauties. He asked for one of them in marriage, leaving to her / the choice of which she would bestow on him. They would neither of them / have him, and they sent him backward and forward from one to the other, / neither being able to make up her mind to marry a man who had a blue / beard. Another thing which made them averse to him was that he had / already married several wives, and nobody knew what had become of them.