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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER XXVI
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This conflict will perhaps outlast both our lives, and you still have a long time to put yourself on the right side.

The nobleman must serve his Prince, but he need be no slave of a ruler, least of all a foreigner, an enemy of his nation.

Here we are; I'll come for you again in an hour.
Give me your hand.

I should like to call you by your Christian name in future, my brave Nico." "Call me so," exclaimed the youth, "and--you'll send no one else?
I should like to talk with you again." The Junker was received in the burgomaster's house by Barbara.

Henrica could not see him immediately, Father Damianus was with her, so he was obliged to wait in the dining-room until the priest appeared.


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