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  1 5 |             which is now called the tulip. ~Boxtel had not the good
  2 5 |        Linnaeuses and Tourneforts a tulip which bore his name, and
  3 5 |           had, on seeing the Boxtel tulip, exclaimed, "Not so bad,
  4 5 |      particularly favourable to the tulip), and the whole surrounded
  5 5 |           to the cultivation of the tulip. He foresaw his neighbour'
  6 5 |           Van Baerle produced a new tulip, and named it the John de
  7 6 |          God in despising it. ~"The tulip is the most beautiful of
  8 6 |      Therefore, he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure." ~
  9 6 |           were not centred upon the tulip. ~We cannot doubt that in
 10 6 |          his tulips! ~But to kill a tulip was a horrible crime in
 11 6 |            his time. ~Just then the Tulip Society of Haarlem offered
 12 6 |       manufacture) of a large black tulip without a spot of colour,
 13 6 |       engrossed by that great black tulip, which was looked upon to
 14 6 |          which go to prove that the tulip borrows its colors from
 15 6 |             story of one particular tulip which we have undertaken
 16 7 |           his name to a magnificent tulip; and whilst he thus, with
 17 7 |             produce the large black tulip required by the Haarlem
 18 7 |              I shall find the black tulip," said Cornelius to himself,
 19 7 |             spot will disfigure the tulip which I have called into
 20 7 |          the globe: The grand black tulip is found! 'How is it called?'
 21 7 |              is only known from the tulip to which I have given his
 22 7 |            darling bulbs! ~"When my tulip has flowered," Baerle continued
 23 7 |           in imparting scent to the tulip. Ah! if I succeed in giving
 24 8 |           producing the grand black tulip. ~Dr. Cornelius, notwithstanding
 25 8 |             produce the grand black tulip, he would filch it; and
 26 8 |         nothing but the grand black tulip; asleep, he dreamed of it. ~
 27 8 |           were to produce the black tulip were planted, he ran towards
 28 8 |             roasted-coffee coloured tulip; but of the black tulip,
 29 8 |             tulip; but of the black tulip, or rather the seedling
 30 8 |             bulb of the grand black tulip, which I have divided into
 31 8 |             enclose the grand black tulip? He had time to get hold
 32 9 |            three bulbs of the black tulip, and concealed them behind
 33 11|           secret of the great black tulip, which it has been considered
 34 11|           for that marvellous black tulip which he was not to see
 35 11|          wish left, except that the tulip should be called Rosa Barlaensis,
 36 11|           next May, the Grand Black Tulip for which a prize of a hundred
 37 11|             of her giving the black tulip, which will constitute a
 38 11|           the saving of a man and a tulip. ~       ~
 39 12|         farewell to the great black tulip, certain of awaking in another
 40 12|            three bulbs of the black tulip are there." ~But Cornelius
 41 13|            three bulbs of the black tulip. ~Boxtel had at first tried
 42 13|            a garden where the black tulip would flower for him. ~Boxtel,
 43 15|            three bulbs of the Black Tulip. ~       ~
 44 16|           of making the great black tulip flower. Let us, therefore,
 45 16|            bulbs of the great black tulip, or because this hand was
 46 16|            bulbs of the great black tulip, or because she had them
 47 16|           him, saying, "How is your tulip going on?" ~To speak to
 48 16|           speak to Cornelius of his tulip was an expedient resorted
 49 16|           herself and for the black tulip, "I have done things on
 50 17|             By the bye, how is your tulip going on?" ~"Oh, Rosa, only
 51 17|           rebelling." ~"Leave me my tulip," cried Van Baerle. ~"Ah,
 52 17|        cried Van Baerle. ~"Ah, yes, tulip," replied the old man, "
 53 17|             his only consolation, a tulip bulb." ~"For shame, my father,"
 54 17|              After all, it is but a tulip," Gryphus resumed, as he
 55 17|            have it. It was not your tulip you cared for. There was
 56 18|       supper the whole story of the tulip, or rather of the bulb,
 57 18|         misfortune is it to crush a tulip bulb? You may buy a hundred
 58 18|              and is in love with my tulip!" ~"You don't say so! And
 59 18|             Did not he offer to you tulip bulbs by hundreds?" ~"Indeed
 60 18|          spot to be chosen for your tulip; you will plant it according
 61 18|            remorse, the grand black tulip yielded precedence in his
 62 19|             he dreamed of the black tulip than of her; and yet Rosa
 63 19|           he would bestow it upon a tulip, -- that is to say, upon
 64 19|       Cornelius's preference of the tulip to herself, but was only
 65 19|       forward to the news about his tulip; and as, notwithstanding
 66 19|           contest between the black tulip and Rosa the tulip had had
 67 19|            black tulip and Rosa the tulip had had to yield to her
 68 19|          prisoner an account of his tulip. ~She had not forgotten
 69 19|       deeper in love than ever. The tulip, indeed, was still a luminous
 70 19|             to sacrifice him to his tulip, -- that is to say, to give
 71 19|             the thought of his poor tulip. It was now just that week
 72 19|            misfortune of seeing his tulip fail on account of its having
 73 19|          the April sun, Rosa or the tulip, the two lost objects of
 74 19|              he is uneasy about his tulip." ~And, rising with a heavy
 75 19|            days, -- ~"Be easy; your tulip is going on well." ~Although
 76 19|            not my anxiety about the tulip that has made me ill, but
 77 20|             speak to you about your tulip, which, as I well know,
 78 20|             of her rival, the black tulip. ~"Oh!" muttered Cornelius, "
 79 20|                Ah!" she said, "your tulip has been in such danger." ~
 80 20|            came for the sake of the tulip." ~"Alas!" said Cornelius,
 81 20|            yourself; but to my poor tulip, when it is in danger, God
 82 20|            odious man was after the tulip, or after me ---- " ~"Yes,
 83 20|           where I was to plant your tulip, looking round all the while
 84 20|            afraid the nursing of my tulip will take up all your time." ~"
 85 20|         Rosa; "but never mind. Your tulip is my daughter. I shall
 86 20|            said Rosa, "to love your tulip." ~"To love you, Rosa." ~
 87 20|          not devoted myself to your tulip?" ~"You are bitter, Rosa,
 88 20|             love, not for the black tulip. Destroy the bulb, destroy
 89 20|                Yes, after the black tulip," sighed Rosa, who at last
 90 20|           day is taken up with your tulip, you must needs leave me
 91 20|       beforehand!" ~"That the black tulip shall not be mentioned for
 92 21|         everything except the black tulip. ~At last, when the clock
 93 21|           one has not spoken of his tulip. ~He found Rosa pretty,
 94 21|          why did Rosa object to the tulip being spoken of? ~This was
 95 21|             his dreams speak of the tulip, but also brought to him
 96 21|            only conversed about the tulip, Cornelius would have preferred
 97 21|            the least mention of the tulip for three days. That meant
 98 21|            Rosa would not allow the tulip to be mentioned, thirty-six
 99 21|   compulsory silence concerning the tulip gave him. ~His fair visitor,
100 21|      dangerous than speaking of the tulip was; but she became aware
101 21|              Well, my daughter, the tulip," said Rosa. ~"What!" cried
102 21|             of nothing else but the tulip." ~"Of nothing else, Rosa?
103 21|           know that to think of the tulip is to think of you; I never
104 21|          which he might talk of his tulip as much as he liked. ~From
105 21|       progress in the growth of the tulip and in the affection of
106 21|            so much for me! Rosa, my tulip is about to flower, and
107 21|        being on earth!" ~"After the tulip, though." ~"Ah! be quiet,
108 21|            tell me, Rosa, -- as the tulip is so far advanced, it will
109 21|       Society, that the grand black tulip is in flower. I know well
110 21|            to Loewestein to see the tulip." ~Then, suddenly checking
111 21|          might watch over his black tulip. ~       ~
112 22|            he, she watched over the tulip; she had before her eyes
113 22|             it heard that the black tulip was found, that it existed
114 22|         liberty in exchange for his tulip! ~Day came, without any
115 22|         came, without any news; the tulip was not yet in flower. ~
116 22|              without any doubt, our tulip will be in flower." ~"And
117 22|         what I have decided on. The tulip once being in flower, and
118 22|           one or even two days, the tulip will still be in its full
119 22|           protocol, and intrust the tulip to him. Ah! if we had been
120 22|            if any one saw the black tulip, it would be stolen." ~"
121 22|           to it. ~"I return to your tulip, Mynheer van Baerle, and
122 22|             Compare me to the black tulip, and I promise you I shall
123 22|         this moment the stem of the tulip between her delicate fingers.
124 22|          same height the miraculous tulip. ~Cornelius uttered a cry,
125 22|          window of my prison!" ~The tulip was beautiful, splendid,
126 22|           it, indeed?" ~"Whilst the tulip opened I wrote it myself,
127 22|             President, -- The black tulip is about to open, perhaps
128 22|         They will then know how the tulip has been grown, how much
129 23|            his hatred, -- the black tulip and Cornelius van Baerle. ~
130 23|            had handled, to give her tulip the best soil possible. ~
131 23|               Rosa watched over her tulip as a mother over her child,
132 23|             news of Rosa and of his tulip. ~Would the coolness between
133 23|            up his mind to steal the tulip; and as it grew in the most
134 23|             the prize; and then the tulip, instead of being called
135 23|          names he would give to the tulip, but, as both meant the
136 23|          The point was to steal the tulip. But in order that Boxtel
137 23|         that Boxtel might steal the tulip, it was necessary that Rosa
138 23|             her room alone with the tulip. ~The first guilty act of
139 23|         wall in order to dig up the tulip; the second, to introduce
140 23|            said, was alone with the tulip. ~A common thief would have
141 23|             very probable, that the tulip would flower black; if,
142 23|       instant to Haarlem, where the tulip would be before the judges
143 23|            progress which the black tulip had made towards flowering. ~
144 23|         Rosa back to watch over the tulip. ~Seeing Rosa enter her
145 23|             Boxtel guessed that the tulip had opened, or was about
146 23|             that this was the black tulip which was in flower. ~But
147 23|          she only going to show the tulip to Cornelius? This was more
148 23|             dark lantern he saw the tulip open, and black as the night
149 24|                       24. The Black Tulip changes Masters~      Cornelius
150 24|          prisoner. ~"Cornelius! the tulip ---- " ~"Well?" ~"How shall
151 24|             had left it, except the tulip, -- that was gone. Some
152 24|        crushed the first bulb of my tulip. Oh, the wretch! he is an
153 24|             he did that of my black tulip." ~The wretched prisoner
154 24|        opened. He carried the black tulip wrapped up in a cloak, and,
155 24|            but slowly, as the black tulip could not bear travelling
156 24|              in which he packed the tulip. The flower was so lightly
157 24|        possibility of injury to the tulip. ~He arrived next morning
158 24|          theft, he transplanted the tulip, and, breaking the original
159 24|      Haarlem with a perfectly black tulip; and, with his flower all
160 25|             to Cornelius the stolen tulip, or never to see him again. ~
161 25|           mistaken, and whether the tulip was not stowed away in some
162 25|             she sought in vain, the tulip was still missing; the tulip
163 25|        tulip was still missing; the tulip was indeed stolen. ~Rosa
164 25|          since she took care of the tulip, that at his dinner hour,
165 25|         Rosa than she had found the tulip. ~At that very moment she
166 25|        speak to him about the black tulip." ~These words seemed to
167 25| representing the double leaf of the tulip; the resemblance was rendered
168 25|             the affair of the black tulip." ~To the President of the
169 25|            me." ~"Stolen! the black tulip?" ~"Yes, sir." ~"Do you
170 25|       Because I have seen the black tulip only two hours ago." ~"You
171 25|             You have seen the black tulip!" cried Rosa, rushing up
172 25|            I told you, sir, that my tulip has been stolen." ~"Then
173 25|           been stolen." ~"Then your tulip is that of Mynheer Boxtel.
174 25|            yourself very badly. The tulip has been stolen, not from
175 25|            and you also had a black tulip?" ~"But is there any other
176 25|         point." ~"And you have this tulip, -- you have it deposited
177 25|      himself the owner of the black tulip ---- " ~"And who is its
178 25|      feature by feature." ~"And the tulip, sir? Is it not in a pot
179 25|          pot." ~"Oh, sir! that's my tulip, which has been stolen from
180 25|           you are here to claim the tulip of Master Boxtel? Well,
181 25|            I am coming to claim the tulip of Master Boxtel, but to
182 25|          the existence of the black tulip, and ordering the hundred
183 26|            at the idea of the black tulip being found again, started
184 26|           such a case, to spare the tulip. ~But on arriving in the
185 26|          have ruined Cornelius, the tulip, and myself. I have given
186 26|               but Cornelius and the tulip!" ~She reflected for a moment. ~"
187 26|           also discovered the black tulip; or if my tulip has been
188 26|           the black tulip; or if my tulip has been stolen by some
189 26|         recognize the man, only the tulip, how shall I prove that
190 26|     contesting with each other, the tulip will die." ~In the meanwhile,
191 26|          speaking only of the black tulip, and the prize of a hundred
192 26|             magic name of the black tulip. ~But when he recognised
193 26|              my report on the black tulip!" ~"Mynheer van Systens,"
194 26|            your report on the black tulip will, if you don't hear
195 26|       undisturbed possession of the tulip if I do not recognise the
196 26|           others is, of course, the tulip. I heard at Leyden that
197 26|            last possessed the black tulip; and, after having satisfied
198 26|             no time in bringing his tulip." ~"Very well, send for
199 26|            What difficulty?" ~"This tulip has already been claimed
200 26|            the woman who claims the tulip, Monseigneur, is here in
201 26|               And so she claims the tulip?" ~"Yes Monseigneur." ~"
202 26|        entire truth concerning this tulip?" ~"I promise." ~"Well,
203 26|        Boxtel to come here with his tulip. If I do not recognise it
204 26|             real owner of the black tulip?" ~"With the very simple
205 26|             to write. No, the black tulip has not been found by myself." ~"
206 26|          have to judge on the black tulip, and have no cognizance
207 26|         offered, in the name of the tulip, his thanks to the new member
208 26|           no longer any news of his tulip; his joy when she went to
209 26|            when they found that the tulip which had come into flower
210 26|     following on his heels with his tulip. ~       ~
211 27|      invited in her turn to see the tulip. ~She now heard the voice
212 27|            drawing-room. ~"It is my tulip," cried Rosa, "I recognise
213 27|         secret of growing the black tulip?" ~"Yes, your Highness,"
214 27|            I deny having stolen the tulip." ~"You have stolen it,
215 27|            I had produced the black tulip, and, in concert with a
216 27|            showed to them the black tulip. Her lover having himself
217 27|           was expected to open, the tulip was taken away by this young
218 27|            produced the grand black tulip. But she did not stop there.
219 27|            he added, -- ~"As to the tulip, make yourself easy, Master
220 27|         Boxtel, she asked, -- ~"The tulip is yours?" ~"It is." ~"How
221 27|       second has produced the black tulip." ~"And the third? ~"The
222 27|              has produced the black tulip, and the third and last" --
223 27|            the bulb, as she did the tulip," Boxtel said, with a faltering
224 27|        claim to the property of the tulip. ~Rosa and the Stadtholder
225 27|         this young woman and of the tulip. Good-bye." ~All bowed,
226 27|          this? ~Rosa went up to the tulip, tenderly kissed its leaves
227 28|     especially since I have lost my tulip. Undoubtedly, some day or
228 29|           intelligence of the black tulip, and regain his consciousness
229 30|         have seen that Rosa and the tulip, like two orphan sisters,
230 30|           Prince, "the feast of the tulip will be on Sunday next,
231 31|           honour of the great black tulip, immaculate and perfect,
232 31|          the first place, the black tulip had been produced; secondly,
233 31|          guilders for the bulb of a tulip. The town, which did not
234 31|          fragrant cortege the black tulip was seen, carried on a litter,
235 31|            public exhibition of the tulip was an act of adoration
236 31|   impossible, -- a completely black tulip. ~Nothing however, is more
237 31|           that is to say, the black tulip, -- and for its hero in
238 31|         right before him, the black tulip, his pretended daughter;
239 31|             as he had stolen Rosa's tulip to effect his own glory,
240 31|            the last time; after the tulip is placed on its throne,
241 31|          eyes for a moment from the tulip and the purse, timidly looking
242 31|            so intently watched this tulip, followed it so eagerly
243 31|            would now take the black tulip from him would have appeared
244 31|            appearance to escort the tulip to the raised seat which
245 31|         Stadtholder. ~And the proud tulip, raised on its pedestal,
246 32|         what flower is that?" ~"The tulip." ~"The tulip!" cried Van
247 32|          that?" ~"The tulip." ~"The tulip!" cried Van Baerle, "is
248 32|             the prize for the black tulip." ~Cornelius's cheek flushed,
249 32|           carriage, "that the black tulip will not be found, except
250 32|             nor less than the black tulip." ~"The black tulip!" replied
251 32|           black tulip." ~"The black tulip!" replied Van Baerle, thrusting
252 32|            see down there the black tulip? Quite black? Is it possible?
253 32|           despair, "if this were my tulip, if it were the one which
254 32|         minute." ~"To see the black tulip, Monseigneur," said Van
255 32|           and let him see the black tulip; it is well worth being
256 33|              sidled up to the black tulip, towards which his gaze
257 33|             the guilders, the black tulip, and the crowd. ~At the
258 33|           concentrated on the black tulip. ~And thirdly, standing
259 33|     whosoever should grow the black tulip. ~"The black tulip has been
260 33|            black tulip. ~"The black tulip has been grown; here it
261 33|          approach to whom the black tulip belongs." ~In pronouncing
262 33|                 Rosa! Rosa!" ~"This tulip is yours, is it not, my
263 33|         Boxtel, "I am lost." ~"This tulip," continued the Prince, "
264 33|            you have found the black tulip, she has nursed it and brought
265 33|          the town of Haarlem to the tulip." ~Cornelius wondered what