cut off without a cent

Gilbertine had been cut off without a cent.

Gilbertine had been cut off without a cent.

Here, clearly, was not one of those situations so often contrived by novelists, in which the luckless heir presumptive, cut off without a cent, weds the pretty cousin who gets the fortune and they live happily together ever afterward.

It was town talk the way he made her toady to his folks, even after he'd been cut off without a cent.

Suppose you knew he was about to be cut off without a cent?