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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER I
18/24

That won't be like putting it back in the box.

Going to the box to take out instead of putting in, it is like going to my heart with a knife for so many drops of blood.

You will be sure to want it, Gerard.
The house is never built for less than the builder counted on." Sure enough, when the time came, Gerard longed to go to Rotterdam and see the Duke, and above all to see the work of his competitors, and so get a lesson from defeat.

And the crown came out of the housewife's pocket with a very good grace.

Gerard would soon be a priest.


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