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Once the door safely closed behind him, he heaved a deep sigh as if of intense relief and he passed his hand quickly across is brow.
"By St. Bavon, " he murmured, "my friend Diogenes, thou hast had to face unpleasantness before now--those arquebusiers at Magdeburg were difficult to withstand, those murderous blackguards in the forests of Prague nearly had thy skin, but verdommt be thou, if thou hast had to hold thy temper in bounds like this before. Dondersteen! how I could have crushed that sharp-tongued young vixen till she cried for mercy.or silenced those venomous lips with a kiss!.I was sore tempted indeed to give her real cause for calling me a knave."