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Chapter
1 1 | 1. A Grateful People~
2 10| 10. The Jailer's Daughter~
3 12| 12. The Execution~ Cornelius
4 13| 13. What was going on all this
5 14| 14. The Pigeons of Dort~
6 31| intended to hold on May 15th, 1673 in honour of the great
7 16| 16. Master and Pupil~The worthy
8 5 | 1640, and the other that of 1610, a fact which proved that
9 5 | bore the date of coinage of 1640, and the other that of 1610,
10 6 | by one of their number in 1653, -- "To despise flowers
11 29| prisoner named Mathias, who in 1668, that is to say, five years
12 7 | him since the autumn of 1671. The tulips, like true daughters
13 33| children which she had borne in 1674 and 1675, both in May, the
14 1 | Attorney General caused, on the 16th of August, 1672, Cornelius
15 17| 17. The First Bulb~ On
16 18| 18. Rosa's Lover~ Rosa
17 19| 19. The Maid And The Flower~
18 8 | of it. ~At last, on the 19th of August, about two o'clock
19 2 | 2. The Two Brothers~
20 21| 21. The Second Bulb~ The
21 22| 22. The Opening Of The Flower~
22 23| 23. The Rival~ And in
23 11| hand: -- ~"On this day, the 23d of August, 1672, being on
24 24| 24. The Black Tulip changes
25 25| 25. The President Van Systens~
26 26| 26. A Member Of The Horticultural
27 27| 27. The Third Bulb~ Boxtel'
28 28| 28. The Hymn Of The Flowers~
29 29| 29. Before Leaving Loewestein~
30 3 | 3. The Pupil of John de Witt~
31 30| 30. To Guess~ Wherein
32 31| 31. Haarlem~ Haarlem,
33 32| 32. A Last Request~ At
34 33| 33. Conclusion~ Van Baerle,
35 4 | 4. The Murderers~ The
36 5 | 5. The Tulip-Fancier And His
37 6 | 6. The Hatred Of A Tulip-Fancier~
38 7 | 7. The Happy Man Makes Acquaintance
39 8 | 8. An Invasion~ The incident
40 28| those choice spirits who abhor everything that is common,
41 29| who in consequence of this ablution had been put to the inconvenience
42 1 | Stadtholderate, which had been abolished for ever in Holland by the "
43 11| detestable intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De
44 5 | willows and rushes, and abounding in luxurious vegetation,
45 21| of her own accord, have abridged the term of his probation. ~"
46 7 | into the dry-room. ~This abrupt entrance was such an infringement
47 14| father," said she. ~Rosa then abruptly drew back from the door,
48 14| the three bulbs were never absent, made a snare for catching
49 23| exceedingly difficult to abstract it from her pocket, but
50 2 | assailing us with their absurd calumnies, have also made
51 16| good air, of the sun, and abundance of moisture." ~"All true,
52 5 | south-southwest; water in abundant supply, and at hand; in
53 8 | which showed to Boxtel the abyss of a uselessly committed
54 1 | first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and,
55 14| Yes, they were indeed the accents which had fallen so sweetly
56 29| accompanied and as it were accentuated his tale, when footsteps
57 5 | in his new studio all the accessories of decoration? ~Yet, although
58 11| to the parcel, in case of accidents, a certificate setting forth
59 32| amidst the most enthusiastic acclamations. ~He soon arrived at the
60 31| to dance on it, with the accompaniment of the cannon of their fleets. ~
61 3 | got an order for them to accompany you out of the town?" ~"
62 26| the multitude, which was accompanying, or rather following, a
63 15| only I did not know how to accomplish it. I had, however, already
64 21| that Rosa would, of her own accord, have abridged the term
65 5 | Maybe this was not quite in accordance with the true state of things
66 29| Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts With Gryphus. ~The two remained
67 5 | his money, which went on accumulating at a most alarming rate,
68 6 | enabled him to watch as accurately as did the owner himself
69 28| towards heaven." ~"Ah, you accursed sorcerer! you are making
70 27| you know of what he was accused and convicted? Of having,
71 22| understand a foible, and to accustom herself to it. ~"I return
72 26| as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles by the hair at the moment
73 13| executioner also readily acquiesced in the proposal, making
74 33| happiness, do not attempt to acquire for her anything beyond
75 27| tulips at Dort. I have even acquired some reputation in this
76 15| mine." ~"Omittance is no acquittance," growled the jailer, "and
77 1 | judges, notwithstanding, acquitted Tyckelaer from every charge;
78 29| first visited the terrifying Acroceraunian shoals. ~In vain did Cornelius
79 2 | own strong will than to actual aid; and he was calculating
80 | actually
81 5 | and tempered it so as to adapt it to the wave of the stems
82 1 | pages which we are about to add might appear quite supererogatory;
83 7 | de Witt was very little addicted to tulip-growing, and that
84 1 | he at last complied, only adding to his signature the two
85 10| perfect skill set the bone, adjusted the splinters, and fastened
86 26| I will hear the case and administer justice." ~"I have found
87 13| such as could not have been administered in better style by any prize-fighter
88 10| thought of nothing else but of administering relief to the sufferer,
89 27| passed into the drawing-room, admired the flower, and silently
90 13| therefore was not able to admit the petitioner, who then
91 19| would have been happy to adorn the bosom of his beloved
92 1 | burgher guard, what are you advancing for, and what do you wish?" ~
93 30| third strange part of his adventures as he had done concerning
94 25| hired a horse, and, like an adventuress, set out on a journey without
95 14| his prison cell the most adventurous life which ever fell to
96 31| exhibition its favourite, having advertised its love of flowers in general
97 29| been encased in more of the aes triplex -- "the triple brass" --
98 5 | sleepiness. Craeke from afar off recognised Dort, the
99 7 | thus, with the kindness and affability of a father to a son, visited
100 20| with which the poor girl affected to speak of her rival, the
101 20| grating, as Cornelius most affectionately kissed them. ~"Above and
102 26| answered simultaneously by an affirmative movement of their heads. ~"
103 17| it to the bars, so as to afford her a little rest. Rosa
104 20| the gardener, and which afforded Rosa some consolation. ~
105 10| my neighbour." ~"Yes, and affording him your help this evening,
106 2 | correspondence with M. de Louvois affords ample proof of your having
107 11| to the effect that "the aforesaid Cornelius van Baerle should
108 11| down for you." ~Rosa sobbed afresh, and handed to him a book,
109 1 | who was at hand to be the agent of this dastardly plot was
110 21| impatience. Could we not agree about a signal?" ~"I shall
111 11| that the love of tulips agreed perfectly well with that
112 31| Haarlem preferred to be the agricultural, or, more strictly speaking,
113 29| but here comes to you an aide-de-camp of his Highness, even one
114 30| and dies in prison, to my aiding him in life and in death." ~"
115 5 | and, besides, a large, airy, and well ventilated chamber
116 28| remained standing with his arms akimbo. ~"It seems your intention
117 5 | on accumulating at a most alarming rate, he took it into his
118 7 | opinion, was more occult than alchemy itself? ~It was undoubtedly
119 14| with the exception of an alcove which was contrived there
120 17| shadow gliding between the alder trees and the aspens. I
121 5 | galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by illustrious Roman
122 5 | Portugal; and the King, Don Alfonso VI. -- who, being expelled
123 32| instant. These words of the all-powerful Prince, who by some secret
124 1 | him the confession of his alleged plot against William of
125 2 | all sorts of bystreets and alleys." ~"You hid yourself, John?" ~"
126 6 | subject which is so closely allied to ours. ~Boxtel, once more
127 15| thought of it," said Rosa, allowing her love to get the better
128 27| that prisoner to whom you allude as the lover of this young
129 20| whom Rosa might possibly be alluding. ~"The dark beauty with
130 6 | limit ourselves, however alluring the subject which is so
131 7 | one who had always stood aloof from every sort of intrigue. ~
132 4 | Captain, that we may arrive at Alphen before the message which
133 33| foot of the throne saluting alternately the Prince and his bride;
134 5 | van Baerle the father had amassed in the Indian trade three
135 4 | extemporised gibbet, where amateur executioners hung them up
136 5 | bulb. ~Boxtel was quite amazed when he saw all this apparatus,
137 25| of the tulips, might send ambassadors. ~"Yes, sir," answered Rosa; "
138 31| was so full of hatred and ambitious vindictiveness, was the
139 | amongst
140 33| their number, he said, amounted to forty-one; but at last,
141 11| hybrid character, of an amphibious organisation, working with
142 2 | with M. de Louvois affords ample proof of your having been
143 11| certain, or rather a complete, analogy between his character and
144 6 | kneeling on the turf border, he analysed every vein of the flowering
145 1 | political convictions as their ancestors were to their faith, are
146 31| turn about at Rome in the ancient days, when she was brought
147 3 | of the pirate?" said the ancients. The difference only between
148 21| Oh, there is not an angel in heaven that may be compared
149 11| sought with his eyes the angelic look of Rosa, but he saw,
150 33| feelings. ~At one of the angles, Boxtel, trembling with
151 4 | with a voice so full of anguish that the young man opposite
152 16| couple of those untoward animals laid waste two of my borders
153 17| developed itself under the animating influence of Cornelius,
154 21| Queen Elizabeth, to Queen Anne of Austria; that is to say,
155 8 | Accordingly, he wrote an anonymous information, the minute
156 5 | having made sure that his two antagonists were really dead, was galloping
157 1 | against the force of national antipathy, and, besides, against the
158 17| only a prelude to greater anxieties. ~The flowing day passed
159 | anywhere
160 6 | seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their
161 25| a little put out by this apostrophe, "I do not say that I am
162 5 | amazed when he saw all this apparatus, but he was not as yet aware
163 12| good character, and the apparent proofs of his innocence. ~
164 3 | was plainly dressed, and apparently unarmed; his arm was lean
165 10| immediately after a lovely apparition presented itself to the
166 29| irretrievably lost. ~In fact, appearances were sadly against him. ~
167 19| Cornelius. ~Rosa therefore applied herself most diligently
168 6 | had no sooner begun to apply his natural ingenuity to
169 15| from him for my father the appointment of jailer of Loewestein,
170 11| little is enough to make me appreciate your character. I have never
171 2 | disposition, King Mob, who fully appreciated the laudable intentions
172 22| me yourself of what you apprehended from your lover Jacob? People
173 2 | depart, and there is some apprehension of a tumult." ~"Of a tumult?"
174 27| the plan of ruining me by appropriating to herself the prize of
175 8 | himself with signifying his approval of the zeal of his servant
176 5 | soil according to the most approved prescriptions, and given
177 3 | brother, and, fastening the apron of the carriage, called
178 3 | of prey, -- with a long aquiline nose, a finely cut mouth,
179 8 | Judge van Spennen with the archers entering the house." ~"Well,
180 31| walks, shaded by the lovely arches of magnificent oaks, lindens,
181 30| resounding in the vaulted archway. ~"My child," continued
182 16| the grating with the same ardor as the day before, and as,
183 17| difficulties seemed too arduous, the sympathy of two loving
184 2 | that it was impossible to argue against him, the mob answered
185 28| I, besides all this, an Argus so much the more dangerous
186 26| it possible? have I heard aright?" ~And he rushed towards
187 1 | at least in the case of Aristides, contented themselves with
188 16| a couple of rats in the ark." ~"I will observe, and
189 4 | troops, that they may be armed for any emergency." ~"But
190 5 | livery stable in order not to arouse suspicion, and tranquilly
191 5 | the human race for fear of arousing the jealousy of God. ~Soon
192 9 | the slow matches of the arquebuses, flaring in the east wind,
193 11| Cornelius van Baerle, as being arraigned, and convicted, for having,
194 5 | horticultural calculations and arrangements of his neighbour. ~After
195 17| at sunset, whilst I was arranging the border where I am to
196 7 | the States I arrest you." ~Arrests were not as yet made in
197 1 | was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream
198 28| the first laid down in Article 9 of the regulations at
199 29| the prison, and certain articles in them remained fixed in
200 11| love of study, of the fine arts, of science, and of flowers.
201 29| jingling of spurs were heard ascending the stair-case. ~The guards
202 5 | studied Nature in all her aspects for the benefit of his paintings,
203 17| the alder trees and the aspens. I did not appear to see
204 2 | the Orange party, while assailing us with their absurd calumnies,
205 1 | William of Orange, hired an assassin to deliver the new Republic
206 31| councils generously treated the assemblage at every halt. ~Every eye
207 1 | town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland,
208 7 | younger Cornelius, bowing assent, said aloud, -- ~"Would
209 26| this Master Boxtel, whom I assert to be Master Jacob, be brought
210 7 | which in olden times, as is asserted, was the terrestrial paradise,
211 26| what do you support your assertion that you are the real owner
212 17| to this friend who is so assiduous in visiting him." ~"Ah,
213 11| went out backwards, and the assistant turnkey was going to follow
214 11| the hands of one of his assistants. Behind this turnkey, who
215 8 | emboldened Boxtel; he got astride the wall, stopped for an
216 1 | it was not enough. ~The Athenians, who indeed have left behind
217 17| after it was crushed to atoms under his heavy shoe. ~Van
218 28| Gryphus will commit some atrocity. I am losing my patience,
219 21| man who is afraid of being attacked from behind. ~Cornelius
220 15| well, what use is it to attend to all this nonsense? --
221 3 | stood, his Highness and his attendant heard the tumult and the
222 7 | Cornelius de Witt, after having attended to his family affairs, reached
223 17| pointed out the letters to his attentive pupil through the holes
224 8 | political events much more attentively than his neighbour Cornelius
225 1 | the Orange faction. The Attorney General caused, on the 16th
226 28| Cornelius did not stir, tried to attract his attention by a loud -- ~"
227 1 | the spectacle, always so attractive to the mob, whose instinctive
228 27| agitation might have been attributable to the emotion which the
229 1 | showing it by cries, they attributed the silence of the dragoons
230 31| Highness, in a loud and audible tone, will proclaim him
231 26| the house, and who, for aught she knew, might be somebody
232 28| We are the daughters of Aurora and of the dew;~We are the
233 5 | particularly like his somewhat austere republicanism, but they
234 21| Elizabeth, to Queen Anne of Austria; that is to say, to the
235 8 | made up for its want of authenticity, and posted his letter. ~
236 23| and quite worthy of its author. ~Thus, every evening during
237 7 | service to him since the autumn of 1671. The tulips, like
238 9 | prison was empty, and Rosa availed herself of this favourable
239 29| Cornelius lost no time, and availing himself of the stick, which
240 6 | impossible for a florist who avails himself with judgment and
241 12| resolutely the terrible avalanche which was about to fall
242 11| conceal an ardent desire to avenge his friends, the De Witts. ~
243 32| who were pushed out of the avenue by the crowd of men and
244 31| and painting, orchards and avenues, groves and parks. Haarlem
245 7 | true daughters of the East, averse to cold, do not abide in
246 5 | This happy mortal, rara avis, was Dr. van Baerle, the
247 11| confine himself to this avowal, but told the whole truth
248 10| am innocent, and I shall await my trial with tranquillity
249 30| Kind Of Execution That Was Awaiting Van Baerle ~The carriage
250 10| makes me fear that no good awaits you." ~"But," asked Cornelius, "
251 26| given the alarm, and perhaps awakened suspicion. I am but a woman;
252 25| previous to the prize being awarded." ~"Oh, sir!" cried Rosa, "
253 30| Cornelius met with such an awful death." ~The Prince compressed
254 12| is only one stroke of the axe," said the philosopher to
255 9 | philosophers who lay it down as an axiom of high policy, "It is the
256 32| dust, and creaking on its axles, the result of a long journey,
257 5 | whole habitation having for background a dark grove of gigantic
258 14| for catching the pigeons, baiting the birds with all the resources
259 5 | of the water, and their balconies, open towards the river,
260 27| get hold of it, and, being balked in his hope, he very nearly
261 17| kind words, like a drop of balm, on the bleeding wounds
262 3 | of being forced over the balustrade by the pressure of the crowd. ~
263 6 | the whole world under the ban, and condemn as schismatics
264 29| they fettered his hands, bandaged his eyes, and let him say
265 1 | of the trial; and to be banished from the soil of the Republic
266 1 | contented themselves with banishing him. ~John de Witt, at the
267 2 | torture. The sentence of banishment having been pronounced,
268 24| fifty yards off, on the banks of the Waal." ~"And during
269 6 | have marched under the same banner with him. ~Mynheer van Baerle
270 31| festival for him, just as Banquo's ghost did that of Macbeth. ~
271 1 | he exclaimed, with that bantering tone which is peculiar to
272 4 | struck down with an iron bar which broke his skull. He
273 1 | but that, horrified at the bare idea of the act which he
274 23| followed her in the night, and bare-footed, he was neither seen nor
275 29| towards Cornelius, who had barely time to retreat behind his
276 2 | be able to save the frail barque which is to carry the brothers
277 9 | the jail, or rather at the barricade which served in its stead:
278 1 | flourishes suggested by his base mind and his ruffianly imagination,
279 30| again to his paper when she bashfully retired to the door. ~The
280 15| to get the better of her bashfulness, "I thought of nothing else." ~
281 25| with yellowish flowers in a basket on three sides?" ~"Oh, as
282 31| that the flooring of the Batavian Republic was solid enough
283 10| said Cornelius; "we will bathe his temples, and he will
284 32| festive day, had become his baton. ~Seeing the man gesticulate
285 6 | disordered, like the pikes of a battalion in the midst of which a
286 3 | indeed owing to the mob battering against it after the square
287 7 | Seven Provinces," during the battle of Southwold Bay, and for
288 6 | hairs left behind on the battle-field; to guard, therefore, in
289 5 | been added to the list of battles; when he had estimated how
290 31| fresh relays, -- even as the bearers of Mother Cybele used to
291 11| set forth with the noble bearing of a martyr and the calm
292 19| nobility of their heraldic bearings. Therefore, although he
293 10| this place, Take care, it bears ill luck to the De Witts!" ~"
294 8 | had taken it, and, like a beast of prey, returned growling
295 20| cheek, hear how my heart beats. It is for you, my love,
296 4 | it, he turned round and beckoned to the Captain who was far
297 2 | entered, hurrying to the bedside of the prisoner, who stretched
298 26| am fond of the water, of beer, and of flowers, sometimes
299 28| misfortune that it thus begets doubt. ~Van Baerle had proposed
300 29| not long before Gryphus begged for mercy. But before begging
301 29| begged for mercy. But before begging for mercy, he had lustily
302 16| and which will help me to beguile those long weary hours when
303 16| you know that I must be behindhand with you, as I have in my
304 12| yellow and pale, as it behooves a Dutch sun to be, was shining
305 29| Cornelius took a decisive step, belaboring his jailer with the most
306 13| demonstrations of joy, began to belabour him with kicks and cuffs,
307 11| pronounced these words, the belfry clock of the Buytenhof struck
308 33| Cornelius, "she has then belied me, when she said this flower
309 7 | sweetest dreams. ~Suddenly the bell of his cabinet was rung
310 29| raised and supported; and, bellowing with rage and pain, he was
311 33| for the plot of ground belonging to him had been bought by
312 31| person with a flower in his belt, combed and brushed, and
313 11| outstretched near a wooden bench, and a deathlike face half
314 25| like that flower when it bends under a breeze. ~"Well,
315 14| which are about to flow from beneath our pen like the varied
316 5 | all her aspects for the benefit of his paintings, which
317 33| his own will, in which he bequeathed to Rosa his bulbs under
318 | beside
319 1 | the Orangist rabble, who besieged him in his house at Dort,
320 3 | with nothing about him that bespoke any great energy. He evidently
321 29| triple brass" -- than Horace bestows upon the sailor who first
322 1 | people and the dragoons, to betake himself to the Buytenhof. ~
323 28| even all his movements, betokened bad and malicious intentions. ~
324 6 | horticulturist, he resolved to bide his time. ~Just then the
325 20| than I am bound; but it binds you, Rosa, you." ~"To what?" ~"
326 12| condemned prisoners, and only bit those who left as free men. ~
327 28| words stopped for a moment, biting his lips and staring out
328 2 | Pensionary, with gloomy bitterness. "I have made my way through
329 23| picturing to him in the blackest colours the learned prisoner
330 4 | it came to a dead stop. A blacksmith had with his hammer struck
331 31| the Eternal City, amid the blare of trumpets and the worship
332 28| separation? Did this brutal, blaspheming, drunken bully take revenge
333 22| At this moment, a star blazed in the southern sky, and
334 6 | and hatred did not carry a blight on the innocent flowers
335 1 | groans and imprecations of blind fury against the brothers
336 29| well as them." ~"But, you blockhead," said Cornelius, "will
337 2 | negotiated with France." ~"What blockheads they are!" ~"But, indeed,
338 28| at the Hague between the blood-stained doublet of William the Taciturn
339 9 | same time lit up her pretty blooming face, surrounded by a profusion
340 6 | Rotterdam," colour of flax, blossoms feathered red and flesh
341 5 | after twenty ships had been blown to pieces, three thousand
342 15| said, "people always make blunders in politics. His Highness
343 10| you are doing." ~Cornelius blushed, and said, "I am but doing
344 21| light would have shown her blushes. ~Of what did the young
345 7 | who not only was, but also boasted of being, an entire stranger
346 5 | standing on the deck of the boat, saw, across the moving
347 11| pressed her hand on her velvet bodice and, forgetting everything
348 7 | any of his servants been bold enough to set his foot there.
349 7 | Indian peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras, and especially
350 2 | felt with such delight the bonds which connected his immortal
351 14| escape from it in that famous book-chest which the jailers forgot
352 25| nice story to tell to his boon companion, Jacob, that worthy
353 31| military, the nobles and the boors. ~The people, even among
354 2 | instant, as I am confoundedly bored here." ~"Yes, yes!" cried
355 33| beautiful children which she had borne in 1674 and 1675, both in
356 31| moment with Van Systens. He borrowed a little importance from
357 6 | to prove that the tulip borrows its colors from the elements;
358 31| with red cheeks and ivory bosoms; nor in the fat, round mynheers,
359 8 | found ticketed, as in a botanical garden, the "Jane," the "
360 29| of having performed as a bounden duty. ~But Rosa, poor girl!
361 26| frightened domestics, began to bow, almost to prostrate himself
362 25| Restless, stooping, and bowlegged?" ~"In truth, you draw Master
363 6 | walls, shelves, cupboards, boxes, and ticketed pigeon-holes,
364 26| enough to knock down a dozen Boxtels single-handed. ~He had been
365 33| matter of course, one was a boy, the other a girl, the former
366 6 | but also the "Beauty of Brabant," milk-white, edged with
367 28| file off my bars, or in braiding cords to let myself down
368 4 | effect, blowing out his brains. John de Witt fell to rise
369 5 | rivalling each other in this branch of horticulture, had begun
370 20| eyes glisten through the branches of the tree like those of
371 29| with horrid threats, to brandish his huge knife, and as,
372 28| sententious tone of Cornelius, brandished his cudgel, but at the moment
373 15| lambs if you only give them brandy or Moselle, but scholars,
374 29| aes triplex -- "the triple brass" -- than Horace bestows
375 11| but likewise without any bravado, received them rather as
376 24| transplanted the tulip, and, breaking the original flower-pot,
377 10| his supper, and falls and breaks his arm, and is left lying
378 20| not growing in water." ~"I breathe again." ~"It is in a good,
379 28| turning their sails, was breathing the fresh air, in order
380 27| lighted up; she read, with breathless anxiety, the mysterious
381 25| flower when it bends under a breeze. ~"Well, miss," he said, "
382 6 | the earth, and the cool breezes. But this is not a treatise
383 31| girt about as she was, breezy and exposed to the sun's
384 13| customary among the "faithful brethren," when one of their masters
385 4 | seen and recognized by a brewer, who, being behind his companions,
386 5 | windmills. He saw the fine red brick houses, mortared in white
387 24| thieves, -- in a cave of brigands? Yes, but the Governor shall
388 13| window the face of Rosa, brightening up again. ~But the coach
389 31| tulip-growing; and this fact brings us in the most natural manner
390 13| a dog. He had therefore bristled up at Boxtel's hatred, whom
391 5 | and shattered by the Dutch broadside, drift out of the line;
392 8 | slipped into the jaws of the bronze lions at Venice, produce
393 7 | admitted only the inoffensive broom of an old Frisian housekeeper,
394 5 | sure the existence of their brotherly affection beyond the grave. ~
395 4 | for he it was -- knit his brows in a very forbidding manner,
396 5 | whereon flocks of fat sheep browsed in peaceful sleepiness.
397 9 | lines, daubed by the coarse brush of a sign-painter: -- ~"
398 31| in his belt, combed and brushed, and all clad in scarlet, --
399 7 | shaken, and opened in such a brusque manner, that Cornelius felt
400 31| Loewestein; he had seen it bud and grow in Rosa's window,
401 23| frame, formed by the first budding sprays of the wild vine
402 16| may distinguish the first buds of the leaves protruding.
403 4 | burghers of the Hague had built a staircase with the bodies
404 11| the only one whom he has bullied." ~"He is punished, my dear
405 15| the tender mercies of his bullying jailer, he drove away for
406 5 | tulip-monomaniac! ~There were bundles of labels, cupboards, and
407 27| in a box their precious burden and deposited it on a table. ~
408 2 | Orange party. I hope you have burned the letters before you left
409 31| politician's hat were not a bushel under which he always hides
410 27| Loewestein because I had business there. On this occasion
411 3 | about him, -- ~"And now, ye butchers, do your work!" ~A savage
412 11| manage it. Go to Dort and ask Butruysheim, my gardener, for soil from
413 4 | John de Witt down with the butt-end. John staggered and fell
414 33| the obnoxious moths and butterflies, killing slugs, and driving
415 3 | which leads into a deserted by-lane, whilst all the people are
416 2 | way through all sorts of bystreets and alleys." ~"You hid yourself,
417 6 | garden exposed to the sun; cabinets with glass walls, shelves,
418 32| in which Van Baerle was caged. ~"What is this?" the Prince
419 28| relish more than the best cake; and then I have the double
420 31| and munching their heavy cakes; nor in the poor young peasants,
421 13| things which Boxtel did not calculate upon: -- ~Rosa, that is
422 2 | to actual aid; and he was calculating how long the formalities
423 1 | us perhaps they will grow calmer, as we have never done them
424 2 | assailing us with their absurd calumnies, have also made it a reproach
425 1 | and tried to obtain by calumny what they had not been able
426 4 | sure to send to me to the camp." ~The Captain bowed, allowed
427 1 | feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, which, in
428 24| threw the pieces into the canal. After which he wrote the
429 5 | continued his journey on the canal-boats, which conveyed him by easy
430 5 | his fellow creatures are cannonading one another; -- Cornelius
431 25| Setting her horse off at a canter, she soon came up with him. ~
432 5 | reproduce and disfigure on canvas the wonders of nature. The
433 11| nothing but the golden brocade cap, tipped with lace, such
434 22| thing would indeed be quite capable of playing such a trick,"
435 11| authority. ~This argument capped all the others, and, in
436 1 | and the fickleness and caprice of the Dutch combined with
437 28| Taciturn and the female walrus captured at Stavesen, and the only
438 9 | his eyes glistening like carbuncles, and shaking his chain,
439 5 | the most ungrateful of all careers, and who will certainly
440 20| turned, he stopped with a careless air, looking about in all
441 20| full of tears, and without caring any longer to hide from
442 32| windows of their several carriages; the one surrounded by his
443 16| Of what use would the carrier pigeons then be?" said Cornelius
444 1 | pistols, that the pistol carries admirably to a distance
445 6 | seedlings to dry up in their cases, and his tulips to wither
446 3 | which was surrounded by castellated walls; and, the arched door
447 14| was building all sorts of castles in the air, and was struggling
448 5 | sure to find them in the catalogues of the times. ~In the beginning
449 3 | on with the rapidity of a cataract. ~At the same time he observed
450 5 | in the midst of momentous catastrophes, will derive from the consolations
451 15| arm' (Gryphus was a Roman Catholic), 'I laugh at the devil.'" ~"
452 22| expanding chalice. Touch it cautiously, Rosa, your lips are burning.
453 24| den of thieves, -- in a cave of brigands? Yes, but the
454 20| added, smilingly, "can I cease to be its rival." ~"My kind
455 16| trespassing; but Cornelius had ceased to correspond, since his
456 13| money lent at a thousand per cent., which, as nobody will
457 5 | been resident there for centuries. ~Cornelius, at that period,
458 6 | motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by
459 21| breakfast." ~"Thank you, friend Cerberus," said the prisoner; "you
460 6 | blood at fever heat. The chagrin of his rival was to pay
461 32| green to fulfil his duty as chairman. He held in his hand the
462 25| man had only a two-wheel chaise, and this was the vehicle
463 12| happened before to M. de Chalais, to M. de Thou, and other
464 2 | accident; and if the shot chanced to wound one of my men,
465 13| on the other side of the Channel. ~Blows were, however, nothing
466 7 | related in the preceding chapters, we find him, about one
467 6 | type to be added to his characters of the Inferno, he might
468 27| to answer these several charges, but, turning to the Prince,
469 14| woman; and implored any charitable soul who might find it to
470 29| Cornelius busied themselves in charitably informing their prisoner
471 1 | mother Henrietta Stuart, of Charles I. of England. We have mentioned
472 17| is that you, my little chatter-box?" the old man cried, boiling
473 10| Now, then, what are you chattering there together about?" said
474 1 | Cornelius to get off so cheaply. ~Some of the agitators
475 21| tulip." ~Then, suddenly checking himself, he said, with a
476 22| with it Rosa, joyous and cheerful as a bird. ~"Well?" asked
477 26| sometimes even of that cheese the flavour of which seems
478 31| magnificent oaks, lindens, and chestnuts. ~Haarlem, -- just as her
479 6 | fruit at the same time of child-like musings and of manly genius --
480 5 | same house ever since his childhood, for it was the house in
481 21| walls were black, its air chilling, the iron bars seemed to
482 15| Loewestein strike nine. ~The last chime was still vibrating through
483 6 | was looked upon to be as chimerical as the black swan of Horace
484 19| Cornelius's cell one heard the chimes of the clock of the fortress.
485 18| me from the difficulty by chiming in, -- ~"'What did he say?
486 14| distance behind a forest of chimneys, he saw flocks of pigeons
487 4 | the almost imperceptible chink of the shutter, the young
488 28| attempt. He was one of those choice spirits who abhor everything
489 16| to-morrow, and you will choose it for your bulb and for
490 9 | people of the Hague had chopped off the flesh of its victims,
491 1 | Tyckelaer!" the mob cried in chorus. ~"And let us not forget,"
492 1 | dropped a curtesy to him. Chucking her under the chin, he said
493 25| spiteful and cruel disposition, chuckled within himself at the idea
494 5 | is the first word in the Cingalese tongue which was ever used
495 25| country, is exceedingly circuitous. ~Not being able to procure
496 9 | cast a sad look round the circular yard before him ~At the
497 7 | cannot even distinguish the circulating veins with the naked eye.
498 31| to all other provincial cities in the number and beauty
499 1 | salutary check on these civic warriors; but by degrees
500 19| little used to this sort of civility on the part of Cornelius,
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