burgomaster-elect

Updated: May 19, 2025

Better would it have been for him, perhaps, could he have kept his courage; at least he would have been spared much added shame and misery. So soon as Adrian had left her Lysbeth rose, robed herself, and took her way to the house of her cousin, van de Werff, now a successful citizen of middle age and the burgomaster-elect of Leyden. "You have heard the news?" she said.

Henry Rider Haggard - Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch