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Dann, so beschrieb es der dicke Graf mehr als fünfzig Jahre später, habe er ihm seine behandschuhte Hand für den damals noch vom Hofzeremoniell vorgeschriebenen Handkuss gereicht – und genau so war es gewesen, nichts davon hatte er erfunden, obwohl er gerne erfand, wenn seine Erinnerung Lücken hatte, und deren gab es viele, denn all das war, als er davon schrieb, bereits ein Menschenalter her.
Then, as the fat count described it more than fifty years later, he had held out his gloved hand to him for the kiss that was at the time still prescribed by court ceremony—and that was exactly how it had been, he had made up none of it, even though he gladly made things up when there were gaps in his memory, and there were a lot of those, for all this was, by the time he was writing it down, a lifetime ago.
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