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The ring, however, was passed on to the Ober-Amtmann; and Magdalena, covering her face with her hands, fell back, with a stifled groan, into her former crouching position.

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Ober-Amtmann; before him were placed, at a velvet-behung table, his

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Astounded at so unexpected a revelation, the Ober-Amtmann seemed at first not to know what to think.

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Ober-Amtmann to the guards caused them to place their pikes before him, and arrest him in his impulse.

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Again a thrill of horror passed through the Ober-Amtmann; for the sound of the voice seemed to revive in his mind memories of the past, and recall a vision he had already striven to dispel from it.

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"Why then this trouble, Bertha?" continued the Ober-Amtmann, in a tone that rendered their conversation inaudible beyond their own immediate circle.

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"Speak, my child," said the Ober-Amtmann, in trouble and anxiety.

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Six years (from 1735 to 1741) he spent as _Amtmann_ (magistrate) at Ritzebtütel.

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Then, fixing his eye keenly upon the Ober-Amtmann, as if to fascinate his attention, he burst into a fresh accusation against the sorceress, as having, in the first place, cast her spells upon the noble Fraulein

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"The Ober-Amtmann will come," he said at last, with a sort of sullen resignation.

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