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"I should have thought that had he been plotting from the first to oppose the power of the Pope for the sake of marrying he would have taken a wife long ago. There has been nothing to hinder him. Certainly not many `pfaffen' would have been so scrupulous.
I, however, got very little from them, only a few cuarts, less than the thieves had given me on the road from Saint James, and with these I departed for the Asturias by the way of Mondonedo. Och, what a town is that, full of canons, priests, and pfaffen, all of them more Carlist than Carlos himself.
"That sounds like a good doctrine," observed Hans, thoughtfully, "the `pfaffen' will not like it, because it will deprive them of their influence and the chief portion of their gains; but how do you know that it is the true one, my young master?" "Because it is in the Word of God, the Bible.
“Prinzen vom Land hinaus, Denn kommt der Bürger Schmaus; Aristokraten Werden gebraten; Fürsten and Pfaffen die werden gehangt!” “Drive out the prince and priest, Then comes the burger’s feast; Each aristocrat Shall broil in his fat, And nobles and bigoted bishops be hanged.” From Berlin to Leipsic by rail, in an open carriage, is not the most interesting journey in the world.
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