The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01
Georg Ebers Translator · English
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The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01
Georg Ebers Translator · English
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THE BURGOMASTER'S WIFE. CHAPTER I. In the year 1574 A. D. spring made its joyous entry into the Netherlands at an unusually early date. The sky was blue, gnats sported in the sunshine, white butterflies alighted on the newly-opened yellow flowers, and beside one of the numerous ditches intersecting the wide plain stood a stork, snapping at a fine frog; the poor fellow soon writhed in its enemy's red beak. One gulp—the merry jumper vanished, and its murderer, flapping its wings,
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