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He could see the famous Star of the East, however, and its gelid twinkle reminded him of his first Christmas, that commoner's winter in Aelfric when he learned, with some astonishment, that the face of an executed Eastern rabble-rouser had been carved in the pagan pumpkin.
Allerdings konnte er den berühmten Stern des Ostens sehen, und dessen eisiges Zwinkern erinnerte ihn an sein erstes Weihnachtsfest, an jenen Winter als einfacher Mann in Aelfric, als er mit einigem Erstaunen erfuhr, daß es das Gesicht eines hingerichteten östlichen Demagogen war, das man in den heidnischen Kürbis schnitzte.
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