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`` Ah , child ! love is stronger than death . So , when all was over -- when Count Rudolph 's eyes had looked their last upon her -- when his voice had whispered the last loving word -- ` Gertrude , thou hast been faithful until death ! ' -- and it was not till high noon , -- then she laid her hand upon his eyes , and clomb down from the wheel , and went back to her void and lonely home . Boy , I never heard of any woman greater than Gertrude von der Wart . '' -LSB- Note 2 . -RSB- `` I marvel how she bare it ! ''