Chapter

  1 1 |    Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster
  2 1 |           Has not," they would say, "this Cornelius de Witt
  3 1 |        Indeed, child, what you say is only too true." ~Then,
  4 2 |       honour as a soldier. ~"I say, Captain," the first lieutenant
  5 2 |     complaint, except once, to say, 'Poor brother!' But now
  6 2 |        against me?" ~"I should say it is against us both, Cornelius.
  7 3 |    added, -- ~"At least people say so, Monseigneur. I cannot
  8 3 |      so, Monseigneur. I cannot say anything about it myself,
  9 3 |   Monseigneur; "do you mean to say that he is an honest man (
 10 3 |          asked De Witt. ~"They say that they are gone to the
 11 3 |        withdraw." ~"You do not say so!" replied John. "Indeed,
 12 3 |       us hear what you have to say, my child. Why should not
 13 4 |   flown." ~"What does this man say?" asked his Highness, growing
 14 4 |     the honest fellow. ~"Well, say what you have to say!" urged
 15 4 |     Well, say what you have to say!" urged the Grand Pensionary. ~"
 16 4 |          it's all very well to say 'Open!' but what am I to
 17 4 |       Who?" ~"Some one, I dare say, who had a mind that no
 18 4 |  cannot take upon ourselves to say whether, through the almost
 19 5 |  Cornelius de Witt, that is to say, a celebrity. ~Boxtel, as
 20 6 |     the discovery (we dare not say the manufacture) of a large
 21 6 |    telescope. ~For, strange to say, the love and interest of
 22 7 |   tulip-fanciers -- that is to say, all the intelligent people
 23 7 |         oh, what glory! I must say, I would then rather be
 24 7 |   Arrest me? arrest me, do you say?" ~"Yes, sir, and they are
 25 8 |       likely he needed only to say one word, and the godson
 26 8 |        rate that's what people say; and, besides, I have seen
 27 8 |      Hague, and if what people say is true, it won't do him
 28 8 |      good." ~"And what do they say?" Boxtel asked. ~"Faith,
 29 8 |      asked. ~"Faith, sir, they say -- but it is not quite sure --
 30 9 |     which it is unnecessary to say more, as the reader is already
 31 10|    said Cornelius. ~"I mean to say, sir, that the judge who
 32 10|    what I mean." ~"What do you say?" ~"I say that I was not
 33 10|          What do you say?" ~"I say that I was not able to save
 34 11|    flower next May, that is to say, in seven months; and, when
 35 11|    Rosa Barlaensis, that is to say, that its name should combine
 36 11|     confiscated; I bequeath, I say, to Rosa Gryphus three bulbs,
 37 11|    Rosa Barlaensis, that is to say, hers and mine combined. ~"
 38 11|    senseless. ~"I have only to say, that I wish you to preserve
 39 12|    than one stroke, that is to say, more than one martyrdom,
 40 13|       et rostro, -- that is to say, coaxing some, and kicking
 41 13|       sign, which was meant to say, -- ~"Be quiet, it's all
 42 13|     upon: -- ~Rosa, that is to say, love; ~William of Orange,
 43 13|  William of Orange, that is to say, clemency. ~But for Rosa
 44 14|        for life, -- that is to say, to something like twenty-two
 45 15|   never have done so." ~"Don't say so," replied Cornelius; "
 46 15|     also. But, for all that, I say his Highness has made a
 47 15|       s very shocking what you say now, Master Gryphus," cried
 48 15|  stupefied with his gin. Don't say anything about it, because,
 49 16|     attention to what he would say, much more on account of
 50 16|        Rosa," he said. "I dare say you have in this fortress
 51 17|       your husband." ~"I don't say anything to the contrary." ~"
 52 17|      happy prospect?" ~"Rather say, this fear, Mynheer Cornelius." ~"
 53 17|        are right; well, I will say then, this fear?" ~"I have
 54 17|       contrary, -- I heard him say to my father only yesterday
 55 17|        ways. She would at once say to your father, or to you, '
 56 17|     the jailer. ~"Take care, I say, you will crush it, Master
 57 18|        did that poor young man say?' ~"I did not know what
 58 18|  chiming in, -- ~"'What did he say? Didn't he fume and fret?' ~"
 59 18| replied." ~"And what did Jacob say or do at these words?" asked
 60 18|      At these words, if I must say it, his eyes seemed to flash
 61 18|      cried Cornelius. "Did you say that I have three?" ~"The
 62 18|    with my tulip!" ~"You don't say so! And yet it is very possible,"
 63 19|    upon a tulip, -- that is to say, upon the proudest and noblest
 64 19|       his tulip, -- that is to say, to give up seeing him,
 65 19|       one step than he used to say to himself, -- ~"Here comes
 66 20|        the garden door, I dare say, so that you might see through
 67 20|   reached his goal, that is to say, the spot where the ground
 68 20|        day long, -- that is to say when the sun shines. But
 69 20|      said, -- ~"Do you mean to say that the bulb has now been
 70 21|       imperfection; that is to say, so long as he was awake
 71 21|    Anne of Austria; that is to say, to the greatest or most
 72 22|    then. ~What would the world say when it heard that the black
 73 22|      Mynheer Cornelius." ~"Oh, say 'Good night, my friend.'" ~"
 74 22|     Rosa, a little consoled. ~"Say, 'My very dear friend.'" ~"
 75 22|    dear friend, I entreat you, say 'very dear,' Rosa, very
 76 22|         very dear,' dear Rosa, say also 'most happy': say '
 77 22|         say also 'most happy': say 'happier and more blessed
 78 23|        second bulb, that is to say, the quintessence of all
 79 23|     more than that, strange to say, she never left it in the
 80 23|     had at first expected. ~We say the theft, for Isaac had
 81 23|        of Genievre, that is to say, with a bottle in each pocket. ~
 82 24|     thief!" ~"Alas! what can I say about it?" ~"But I say that
 83 24|       I say about it?" ~"But I say that it is no one else but
 84 25|        guilders, -- that is to say, all her fortune, -- fetched
 85 25|        dinner hour, that is to say, at twelve o'clock, he was
 86 25|    what you are, -- that is to say, for the honorable Mynheer
 87 25|    Master Boxtel? Well, I must say, you are cool enough." ~"
 88 25|     this apostrophe, "I do not say that I am coming to claim
 89 26|        speech. ~"I am sorry to say we have not." ~"And where
 90 26|      woman, Sir?" ~"I ought to say, the woman who claims the
 91 26|        movement, as much as to say, "Well, that's it, I remember
 92 26|    experienced florist, I dare say?" ~Rosa hesitated a moment;
 93 26|        Finish what you have to say," said William. ~"I confess
 94 27|      do you mean?" ~"I mean to say that at Loewestein the man
 95 27|   Master Jacob." ~"What do you say to that, Master Boxtel?" ~"
 96 27|      that, Master Boxtel?" ~"I say that this damsel lies, your
 97 27|      discover your intentions. Say, do you deny all this?" ~
 98 27|         I have nothing more to say," Isaac continued. "Your
 99 27|      which I did not intend to say, because I did not wish
100 27|        that's what you want to say, is it not?" ~"What I wish
101 27|      it not?" ~"What I wish to say, your Highness, is that
102 27|    Pray, your Highness, do not say such a word, it would kill
103 28|        is our root, that is to say, our life,~But we raise
104 28|           Our soul, that is to say, our perfume." ~Gryphus
105 28|      Indeed, I am one. I don't say it before all the world,
106 29|        who in 1668, that is to say, five years before, had
107 29| bandaged his eyes, and let him say his prayers. ~Hereupon he
108 29|       within twelve hours, you say?" ~"Yes, the twelfth hour
109 29|       in his work, ventured to say to the officer, -- ~"But,
110 29|      one last kiss, or even to say one last word of farewell? ~
111 30|        But what?" ~"I dare not say, Monseigneur." ~"There is
112 30|        Sunday next, that is to say, the day after to-morrow.
113 31|       man-of-war -- that is to say, for the support of national
114 31|        passed, to know what to say of them, and sometimes also
115 31|        festival, -- that is to say, the black tulip, -- and
116 32|         What is it you mean to say?" ~"I mean to say." replied
117 32|      mean to say?" ~"I mean to say." replied Cornelius, throwing
118 33|             It is difficult to say by whom this money is gained,
119 33|      right never to be able to say, 'I am too happy.'"~