Chapter

 1 1 |      addressed them: -- ~"Well, gentlemen of the burgher guard, what
 2 1 |       his profession; "be easy, gentlemen, my soldiers will not fire
 3 2 |   prison,' and I guard it. You, gentlemen, who are almost military
 4 2 |        us understand each other gentlemen. Whom should I betray? The
 5 2 |        most perfect urbanity. ~"Gentlemen," he said, "uncock your
 6 2 |       was habitual to him, "the gentlemen at the Town-hall expect
 7 3 |         his colleagues, were. ~"Gentlemen," Bowelt repeated for the
 8 3 | presented themselves. These two gentlemen had retired into the building,
 9 3 |         be lost." ~"Come along, gentlemen," said the girl, who now
10 4 |   sealed." ~"By whom?" ~"By the gentlemen of the Town-hall." ~"Well,
11 11|              You ask me things, gentlemen, to which I can answer only
12 15|        one of those unfortunate gentlemen was my friend, and the other
13 26|       her heart, she said, -- ~"Gentlemen, I am speaking to men of
14 31|  excellent music with which the gentlemen of the town councils generously