Wife of Edgar

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    There lived a wife at Usher’s Well,
    And a wealthy wife was she;
    She had three stout and stalwart sons,
    And sent them o’er the sea.
    —Unknown. The Wife of Usher’s Well (l. 1–4)

    By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    The black cat does not die. Those same books, if I am not mistaken, teach that the black cat is deathless. Deathless as evil. It is the origin of the common superstition of the cat with nine lives.
    Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)