"Was Delilah, who betrayed Samson to the Philistines, a man or a woman?" asked Van Hout.
"She was a woman. The exception, that proves the rule. Isn't that so,
Maria?"
The burgomaster's wife made no reply except a silent nod; then indignantly pushed back her chair, and the meal was over.
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