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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER XVII
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On the right and left, lofty cliffs tower like walls.

Your breathing becomes oppressed in the narrow valleys, and if you want to get a distant view--there's nothing to be seen, for everywhere some good-for-nothing mountain thrusts itself directly before your nose.

I believe the Lord created those humps for a punishment to men after Adam's fall.

On the sixth day of creation the earth was level.

It was in August, and when the noon sun was reflected from the rocks, the heat was enough to kill one; it's a miracle, that I'm not sitting beside you dried up and baked.


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