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Updated: May 18, 2025
It was I who betrayed the secret of the sword Silence." "You? How did you know it?" asked Foy. "Mother Martha told me on the night of the church burning after you escaped from Leyden." Martin grunted. "One woman to trust another, and at her age too; what a fool!" "Fool yourself, you thick-brained Frisian," broke in Martha angrily, "where did you learn to teach your betters wisdom?
He was too thick-brained to think for a moment that I should ever trouble to prepare two diaries, one for myself and one for capture if detected, so I still held the treasured original, which I instantly hid away safely. As luck would have it not a word was included in the captured notes to offer written evidence of my private and candid opinion of my captors, their methods and our life.
This sentimental parasite, the most despicable of them all, whose pathos sublimely glossed over each fresh treason, was sent for by Napoleon, who placed him about his person. Among other things, he asked him, "Is it not true the Germans are somewhat thick-brained?" to which the fawning professor replied with a smile.
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