Chapter

 1 1 |           which, in the space of three months, had laid the power
 2 2 |          and its approaches with three companies. ~"Wherefore such
 3 2 |       not guilty; and now, after three days of agony, he once more
 4 3 |        of scarcely twenty-two or three, with nothing about him
 5 4 |       them what he had seen. The three men then stopped, looking
 6 4 |           for its nucleus, those three men whom we left looking
 7 5 |      amassed in the Indian trade three or four hundred thousand
 8 5 |        reader at once that these three or four hundred thousand
 9 5 |         from time into eternity, three months after having buried
10 5 |        had been blown to pieces, three thousand men killed and
11 5 |  magnificent result: he produced three new tulips, which he called
12 5 |         de Witt came to Dort for three months, to live at his old
13 7 |          with intense delight on three suckers which he had just
14 7 |   remember my having paid two or three hundred guilders for one
15 7 |        it came, folded in it the three bulbs, secreted them in
16 8 |       have seen, divided it into three. ~Boxtel could not bring
17 8 |        which I have divided into three perfect suckers." ~"Oh these
18 9 |         drew from his breast the three bulbs of the black tulip,
19 11|        taking the paper with the three suckers from his breast,
20 11|          for they are won by the three bulbs wrapped up in it,
21 11|        it, and plant in it these three bulbs. They will flower
22 11|           I say, to Rosa Gryphus three bulbs, which I am convinced
23 12|                Cornelius had not three hundred paces to walk outside
24 12|        blood which they had shed three days before, were now craving
25 12|         torn to pieces and burnt three days before. ~He knelt down,
26 12|       light and glorious tints. ~Three times he felt, with a shudder,
27 12|       will be there, and also my three bulbs of the black tulip
28 13|        could not get hold of the three bulbs of the black tulip. ~
29 14|          from whose thoughts the three bulbs were never absent,
30 14|        he loved, and also of his three darling bulbs. ~He rose,
31 15|         I should have my blessed three months for my money before
32 15|          return to Cornelius the three bulbs of the Black Tulip. ~       ~
33 16|      prince as the Stadtholder. ~Three times a day he entered Van
34 16|          through the grating the three bulbs, which were still
35 16|  modified it, we will divide our three bulbs; you will take one
36 17|       incident. Gryphus made his three visits, and discovered nothing.
37 17|       tulips as you like: I have three hundred of them in my loft." ~"
38 18|       them, as there usually are three suckers!'" ~"Three suckers!"
39 18|   usually are three suckers!'" ~"Three suckers!" cried Cornelius. "
40 18|          Did you say that I have three?" ~"The word certainly struck
41 18|         he did." ~"Accept two or three, and, along with them, you
42 18|         Rosa; and when, at about three in the morning, he fell
43 20|          the same thing twice or three times, until at last he
44 20|          The soil is composed of three parts of common mould, taken
45 20|     window towards the west from three to five in the afternoon." ~"
46 20|        be mentioned for the next three days." ~"It shall never
47 21|       Gryphus, but also those of three or four soldiers, who were
48 21|        the pencil and the two or three leaves of white paper which
49 21|         mention of the tulip for three days. That meant seventy-two
50 21|         it will flower in two or three days, at the latest?" ~"
51 21|         said Cornelius. ~"I have three hundred guilders." ~"Oh,
52 21|     guilders." ~"Oh, if you have three hundred guilders, you must
53 23|         been installed more than three days in his attic before
54 25|          for a journey; took her three hundred guilders, -- that
55 25| yellowish flowers in a basket on three sides?" ~"Oh, as to that
56 26|          one of the people, who, three months ago, knew neither
57 26|        had happened for the last three months, all that she had
58 27|         therefore answered, -- ~"Three." ~"What has become of these
59 27|          the true story of these three bulbs. The first was crushed
60 27|       van Baerle gave me all the three. Take it, Monseigneur, take
61 28|         cogitations of Cornelius three days after the sad scene
62 29|      turnkeys, an inspector, and three or four guards, made their
63 29|     flower, or to a book, -- the three things by which a man's
64 30|        Zuyder Zee on his right. ~Three hours after, he entered
65 31|                Haarlem, whither, three days ago, we conducted our
66 33|      eyes rested by turns on the three extremities of a triangle
67 33|        formed opposite to him by three persons of very different
68 33|  surveyed with his eagle eye the three extremities of the triangle. ~