[The Burgomaster’s Wife Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Burgomaster’s Wife Complete CHAPTER XV 11/16
Where he gets it is his affair.
Thus the account with him would be settled. "Belotti has behaved badly.
He shall be passed over. "Denise may keep what was given her." In the middle of the paper, written in large characters, twice and thrice underlined, was the sentence: "The ebony-casket with the Hoogstraten and d'Avila arms on the lid is to be sent to the widow of the Marquis d'Avennes.
Forward it to Chateau Rochebrun in Normandy." The men, who had mutually deciphered these words, looked at each other silently, until Van Hout exclaimed: "What a confused mixture of malice and feminine weakness.
Let a woman's heart seem ever so cold; glacier flowers will always be found in it." "I'm sorry for the young lady in your house, Herr Peter," cried the notary, "it would be easier to get sparks from rye-bread, than such a sum from the debt-laden poor devil.
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