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Were these the same villagers who had talked so scandalously of Walpurga when, at Christmas time, the new clothes had come for Hansei and the mother? Had they suddenly become kind and loving?
It seemed, at first, as if they had really raised themselves to the noblest height, that of pure sympathy.