Chapter

 1 2 |    did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the
 2 5 |    Witt, who has plunged into politics, the most ungrateful of
 3 5 |       shunning the pursuit of politics, absorbed as he was in the
 4 7 |       papers were relating to politics. ~But why should papers
 5 11| described his indifference to politics, his love of study, of the
 6 11|   perfectly well with that of politics, and that it was proved
 7 11|   tulips, or a great lover of politics; in either case, he has
 8 11|  having occupied himself with politics is proved by the letters
 9 11|  tulips and in the pursuit of politics at one and the same time,
10 11|  working with equal ardour at politics and at tulips, which proves
11 12|    having thought too much of politics, and where Cornelius van
12 15|       always make blunders in politics. His Highness has granted