Chapter

 1 1 |    manage. Its inhabitants were poor, brave, and, the nature
 2 1 |        was a large fortune in a poor country, where, all commodities
 3 4 | dreadful master. My mother is a poor woman who never offended
 4 4 |     great Vizier," answered the poor woman, who, having nothing
 5 6 |       the castle by the lake, a poor monk of the order of St.
 6 7 |       distributed in alms among poor women without distinction
 7 7 |       secretly large sums among poor and obscure people, such
 8 7 |      the same amount as did the poor, but were obliged to present
 9 7 |       women, children, rich and poor alike, were interrogated,
10 11|         friend, and strangle my poor Basilissa; let her not fall