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CHAPTER IX
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She soon found him again among the travellers sleeping on the straw; but the old man's slumber was so sound that she felt reluctant to wake him.

Among the Dominicans from Cologne, most of whom were also asleep, there were none she would have trusted, nay, she even thought that one was the very person who, shortly before her fall from the rope, had pursued her with persistent importunity.
But the Abbot of St.AEgidius in Nuremberg, who had dined with the ambassadors from his native city, was also a man of benevolent, winning expression.

His cheeks were flushed, either by the heat or the wine which he had drunk, but there was a look of attractive kindness upon his well-formed features.

When he went through the room a short time before, Kuni had seen him pass his hand caressingly over the fair hair of the pretty little son of a potter's wife from Reren on the Rhine, whose cart was standing outside in the meadow by the Main.

He was scarcely of the same mind as the gentleman from Cologne, for he had just waved his plump hand in protest.
Perhaps she might even do him a favour by summoning him.


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