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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER XXVII
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Do you know the signification of eternity and eternal faith ?" "No, Fraulein, I wasn't taught to think so deeply at Jena." "Of course.

Your teachers were men.

Men and faith, eternal faith!" "Was Delilah, who betrayed Samson to the Philistines, a man or a woman ?" asked Van Hout.
"She was a woman.

The exception, that proves the rule.

Isn't that so, Maria ?" The burgomaster's wife made no reply except a silent nod; then indignantly pushed back her chair, and the meal was over..


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