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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER X
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My throat is better suited to drinking than singing.

Will you allow me ?" The fencing-master raised the jug of beer which Wilhelm's mother filled freshly every day and placed in her darling's room, and took a long pull.

Then wiping his moustache, he said: "That did me good, and I needed it.

The men wanted to go out pleasuring and omit their drill, but we forced them to go through it, Junker von Warmond, Duivenvoorde and I.Who knows how soon it may be necessary to show what we can do.

Roland, my fore man, such imprudence is like a cudgel, against which one can do nothing with Florentine rapiers, clever tierce and quarto.


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