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Note 35 — From Rebhun’s ‘Susanna,’ Act III, Sc. 4: Having been menaced with death by the wanton judges, Susanna tells her father, mother, and sister of the infamous plot.62

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At this point nearly a hundred lines are omitted. The wife confesses several transgressions and pleads to be let off, but the husband insists that she handle the iron. When at last she does so it burns her badly. The husband chides her in strong language, whereupon Gefatter intervenes as a peacemaker.

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