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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER I
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Catholics are Christians, as well as we.

You heard it from Van Hout, and my father says so too.

Will you be a Spaniard, Adam, yes or no ?" "No!" cried the latter firmly.

"And if anybody else--" "You can quarrel afterward," said Adrian Van der Werff, interrupting his excited companions, then good-naturedly picking up the books Baersdorp had flung down, and handing them to him, continued resolutely, "I'll be a Spaniard to-day.

Who else ?" "I, I, I too, for aught I care," shouted several of the scholars, and the forming of the two parties would have been carried on in the best order to the end, if the boys' attention had not been diverted by a fresh incident.
A young gentleman, followed by a black servant, came up the street directly towards them.


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