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CHAPTER II
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My foot lies buried there with many other things which will never return.

I can only move on wheels behind the person who takes me." Then she paused and ventured to look him full in the face.

Her eyes met his beaming with a radiant light, but directly after they were dimmed by a mist of tears.

Yet she forced them back, though the deep suffering from which they sprung was touchingly apparent in the tone of her voice, as she continued: "I have often wished, Herr Lienhard, that the cart was my coffin and the tavern the graveyard." Dietel noticed the fit of coughing which followed this speech, and the hasty movement with which the Nuremberg patrician thrust his hand into his purse and tossed Kuni three coins.

They did not shine with the dull white lustre of silver, but with the yellow glitter of gold.
The waiter's eyes were sharp and he had his own ideas about this unprecedented liberality.
The travelling companions of the aristocratic burgomaster and ambassadors of the proud city of Nuremberg had also noticed this incident.
After they had taken their seats at the handsomely ornamented table, Wilibald Pirckheimer bent toward the ear of his young friend and companion in office, whispering: "The lovely wife at home whom you toiled so hard to win, might, I know, rest quietly, secure in the possession of all the charms of foam-born Aphrodite, yet I warn you.


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