With great efforts his son succeeded in convincing him not to donate his entire wealth to an orphanage

1. A Option A: and lead the life of a wealthy merchant
2. B Option B: but to a home for the forsaken children
3. C Option C: and make an orphan of himself
4. D Option D: as the orphanage needed a lot of donations
5. E Option E: as the orphanage had been set up by him

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