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In The Fire Of The Forge
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CHAPTER VIII
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With good reason and prudent caution she forbids the languishing knight to remain beneath her window, yet she will risk a pleasant little interview in some safe nook.

That is wise for so young a girl, and at the same time natural and womanly.

I don't know why you knit your brows.

Since the first Eve came from a crooked rib, all her daughters prefer devious ways.

But first hear what she writes." Then, without heeding his master's gloomy face, he began to read the note aloud.
Heinz listened intently, and after he had heard that the lady of his love did not desire to meet him alone, but only under the protection of a friend and her saint, when he heard her name her colour, it is true, but also express the expectation that, as a godly knight, he would fight for her sake in honour of the gracious Virgin, his face brightened.
During Biberli's scoffing comments he had felt as if a tempest had hurled her pure image in the dust.


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