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The fourth bad husband was a popular man and much sought after socially.
He was dearly loved by his relatives -- his mother, his sister, and a young cousin who lived with his parents, and whose orphaned childhood he had made bright by his care. She was fourteen and his young sister sixteen, when he married the compelling woman.