Chapter

 1 1 |        apprise the reader -- our old friend, to whom we are wont
 2 2 |       you be able to write, poor old fellow?" John asked, with
 3 3 |    reached such a pitch that the old building shook to the very
 4 5 |          father and grandfather, old established princely merchants
 5 5 |     three months, to live at his old family mansion; for not
 6 5 |       Cornelius proceeded to his old paternal house, and gave
 7 7 | tulip-fancier, was, as Delphi of old, interdicted to the profane
 8 7 |          inoffensive broom of an old Frisian housekeeper, who
 9 7 |        worthy master!" cried the old housekeeper, who now likewise
10 7 |       stupefaction, embraced his old nurse, who was in a swoon;
11 14|        the windmills of his dear old city Dort, which were looming
12 14|   addressed it to his nurse, the old Frisian woman; and implored
13 14|        the door, and ran to meet old Gryphus, who made his appearance
14 15|         smiled ironically at the old jailer, Rosa, from the outside,
15 16|        Waal, and is full of fine old trees." ~"Could you bring
16 17|          an acquaintance with an old crony who used to visit
17 17|    friends, Rosa; I have only my old nurse, whom you know, and
18 17|         the exception of my poor old Sue, I have no friends in
19 17|     peeping forth, had not heard old Gryphus coming upstairs
20 17|      Gryphus, obstinate, like an old man, and more and more convinced
21 17|         yes, tulip," replied the old man, "we know well the shifts
22 17|     flung it on the bald head of old Gryphus. ~But a cry stopped
23 17|         little chatter-box?" the old man cried, boiling with
24 18|         to himself, -- ~"Ah, you old hangman! it is me you have
25 18|       the stoicism of a Roman of old, "it would be a weakness,
26 19|         former habits, asked the old jailer, with the most winning
27 19|        some hope that it was the old man who prevented his daughter
28 23|          recognized in Jacob our old friend, or rather enemy,
29 24|      Baerle. "Oh, you villain!" ~Old Gryphus, in the midst of
30 27|         made the acquaintance of old Gryphus, and, falling in
31 28|         malignity in the eyes of old Gryphus to expect that his
32 28|        get at the throat of that old villain, and strangle him." ~
33 28|         and foaming mouth of the old jailer, he said, -- ~"Bless
34 29|          the jailer's lodge; his old eyes, gray as those of a
35 31|        their hands, and made the old town of Haarlem re-echo
36 33|       Rosa, who sent her lover's old housekeeper as a messenger
37 33|         learned the character of old Gryphus, will comprehend
38 33|       watch over the tulips, the old man made the rudest keeper