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1001 31| brought from Etruria to the Eternal City, amid the blare of
1002 31| when she was brought from Etruria to the Eternal City, amid
1003 7 | from her Eastern to her European throne, and which she must
1004 23| marriage and of love, he had evaded all the suspicions which
1005 27| together for my ruin. On the eve of the day when the flower
1006 20| must needs leave me the evenings to find him." ~"But, Rosa,
1007 22| God, Thou pitying Father everlasting! But to-day, this evening,
1008 11| long, it having appeared on evidence that Cornelius had kept
1009 27| punish you; but the real evil-doer shall pay the penalty for
1010 1 | say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town,
1011 3 | leaning on the arm of the Ex-Grand Pensionary, descended the
1012 8 | possible even with greater exactitude and care than the first
1013 8 | information, the minute exactness of which made up for its
1014 3 | therefore, had by no means exaggerated the danger, when, assisting
1015 11| been felicitously quoted as examples." ~The upshot of all these
1016 23| In that moment Boxtel's exasperation was the more fierce, as,
1017 2 | glorious brother, whom he now excelled, not in services rendered
1018 33| honour for this queen of excellence and purity. And yet, the
1019 4 | his pace, in order not to excite any suspicion. ~But when,
1020 14| to relate the series of exciting events which are about to
1021 27| in dismay. ~Hearing this exclamation on his left, Boxtel turned
1022 21| the iron bars seemed to exclude every ray of light. ~But
1023 6 | tulip-fanciers, the most exclusive of all schools, worked out
1024 30| give to the Governor, and execute them as far as they regard
1025 4 | out of the Hague? This is executing my orders very slowly." ~"
1026 1 | and his horsemen, indeed, exercised a salutary check on these
1027 8 | it, carried it with great exertion to his garden, and with
1028 25| will be, as it has to be exhibited before the committee previous
1029 13| hundred guilders; rather an exorbitant sum, as he engaged to leave
1030 21| was that the leaves had expanded, and at another that the
1031 22| touches with her lips its expanding chalice. Touch it cautiously,
1032 22| flower, which lives, which expands, which opens, perhaps Rosa
1033 20| the will was made in the expectation of death, and, thanks to
1034 16| entered Van Baerle's cell, expecting to find him trespassing;
1035 21| trophy brought back from the expedition. ~At six Gryphus came back
1036 5 | Alfonso VI. -- who, being expelled from Lisbon, had retired
1037 28| vent their spleen. ~The expense being once incurred, one
1038 23| when he thus renewed the experiment, the obstacle which prevented
1039 28| window into the Waal? I am expert enough as a swimmer to save
1040 16| Because to-day our hour is expired, and I must leave you." ~"
1041 2 | hovering above it, like the expiring flame which rises from the
1042 1 | in our power -- that this explanation is as indispensable to the
1043 30| pleasant details and exact explanations concerning this third strange
1044 1 | just mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about
1045 18| bulb, and of his own fine exploit of crushing it." ~Cornelius
1046 15| the pigeons. ~Rather than expose them to the tender mercies
1047 31| Haarlem, having enjoyed the exquisite pleasure of admiring the
1048 4 | and bloody bodies to an extemporised gibbet, where amateur executioners
1049 11| favour of you," said Rosa, extending her arms partly towards
1050 11| dangerous, as under this icy exterior he was sure to conceal an
1051 5 | you will let my name grow extinct, and my guilders, which
1052 1 | by the Perpetual Edict, extinguished the hope which the young
1053 4 | savage yells of malignant exultation. ~The young man -- a thing
1054 30| and knit his brow and his eyelids dropped so as to hide his
1055 3 | The Count tarried behind, facing to the last the infuriated
1056 4 | Highness's way of becoming de facto Stadtholder of Holland." ~"
1057 20| him alone Rosa owed the faculty of reading the love-letters
1058 24| this, she felt her limbs failing her, and she fell on her
1059 27| God, my God! what infamous falsehoods!" said Rosa, bursting into
1060 30| wish me to be dressed?" faltered Rosa. ~"Take the costume
1061 7 | them as onions for their families, as they have sometimes
1062 1 | the strength, but even the fanaticism, of his executioners. ~The
1063 26| not my Jacob, but another fancier, who has also discovered
1064 1 | spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob, and wedding
1065 23| no doubt that this little farce had been played in order
1066 31| interest of the situation, the fascinating, dramatic interest, is not
1067 28| seemed to possess a strange fascination for him, he continued, -- ~"
1068 10| adjusted the splinters, and fastened the bandages. ~At the last
1069 7 | looking at it with almost fatherly affection, he exclaimed, "
1070 28| daughter, like the ruthless fathers of the Greek drama? And
1071 18| fell asleep overcome with fatigue, and harassed with remorse,
1072 24| next morning at Haarlem, fatigued but triumphant; and, to
1073 16| an animal much more to be feared than even the cat or the
1074 23| and how the instinctive fears of Cornelius had put the
1075 6 | sprinkled upon them, and feasted on the fine soft earth which
1076 6 | colour of flax, blossoms feathered red and flesh colour, the "
1077 14| evening in the beginning of February, just when the stars were
1078 12| not possess the means to feed Van Baerle at the Hague,
1079 18| that he may follow you. Feign to put the bulb into the
1080 26| now." ~And, all the while feigning to be engaged with his book,
1081 11| the Great Conde have been felicitously quoted as examples." ~The
1082 24| not much longer have the felicity of conspiring together.
1083 21| would have been sure to ferret it out in the search, and
1084 22| No, be quiet, it is the ferryman of Loewestein, a smart young
1085 5 | funnel, dried up, warmed, and fertilised the mist which the verdant
1086 22| gratitude and religious fervour. ~"Oh Thou art always watching
1087 31| bestowing the prize should be a fete which should live for ever
1088 31| that Holland is the home of fetes; never did sluggish natures
1089 29| expanse of country. There they fettered his hands, bandaged his
1090 13| time Gryphus was in bed, feverish, and with a broken arm.
1091 31| Nothing however, is more fickle than such a resolution of
1092 1 | the King above; and the fickleness and caprice of the Dutch
1093 31| notable victories in the field of science, but to reserve
1094 29| the causes which had so fiercely exasperated his jailer,
1095 13| had not only the snarling fierceness, but likewise the fidelity,
1096 4 | again amidst a volley of the fiercest oaths. ~"Alas!" said Cornelius, "
1097 4 | King, sped away upon his fiery steed, -- this future Stadtholder
1098 5 | claimed the victory, that the fighting would soon begin again,
1099 20| there no risk of having it filched by that detestable Jacob?" ~"
1100 3 | dragoons, as they were quietly filing off. ~The Count tarried
1101 11| from my border number six, fill a deep box with it, and
1102 28| the keen eyes of hatred? Finally, is there not one fact which
1103 5 | all his intellectual and financial resources to the cultivation
1104 26| honest truth which generally finds its way to the hearts of
1105 3 | a long aquiline nose, a finely cut mouth, which he generally
1106 5 | guilders, which no one has ever fingered but my father, myself, and
1107 29| It is not worth while finishing it," answered the officer. ~"
1108 4 | to see; a third murderer fired a pistol with the muzzle
1109 7 | just taking his meal by his fireside. He inquired what it meant,
1110 25| Society the Tulipa nigra was a first-rate power, which, in its character
1111 19| ground." ~He had intended to fix, at the vainly hoped for
1112 5 | The Seven Provinces," the flagship of a fleet of one hundred
1113 2 | above it, like the expiring flame which rises from the half-extinguished
1114 18| his eyes were like two flaming torches, his hair stood
1115 4 | setting his spurs into its flanks, started off for the Leyden
1116 9 | matches of the arquebuses, flaring in the east wind, had thrown
1117 27| his generally quiet eye flashed, and a death-like paleness
1118 23| by holding out to him the flattering prospect of his designing
1119 6 | of Rotterdam," colour of flax, blossoms feathered red
1120 31| accompaniment of the cannon of their fleets. ~The Horticultural Society
1121 3 | speed of a pair of spirited Flemish horses. Rosa followed them
1122 14| hatch the eggs in her stead, flew joyously to Dort, with the
1123 1 | opinion, in its whimsical flights, does not identify a principle
1124 29| hand, the ruffian might fling it at him, Cornelius lost
1125 3 | tumultuous confusion were seen flitting to and fro across the windows:
1126 4 | mass of moving heads like a floating island. But in another instant
1127 31| placid as the passing of a flock of lambs, and as inoffensive
1128 25| misery, even starvation and flogging. ~Cornelius, without even
1129 31| as that of 1672, that the flooring of the Batavian Republic
1130 5 | collected and classified the Flora of all the Dutch islands,
1131 5 | four hundred thousands of florins and income of ten thousand,
1132 5 | as we are assured by the "Floriste Francaise," the most highly
1133 6 | power of imagination among florists, that although considering
1134 28| he is furious." ~Gryphus flourished his stick above his head,
1135 1 | all the embellishments and flourishes suggested by his base mind
1136 17| showing in the blood, as it flowed downwards in the veins that
1137 6 | stones and sticks into the flower-stands of his neighbour. But, remembering
1138 7 | bulbs! ~"When my tulip has flowered," Baerle continued in his
1139 3 | the crowd. ~After this, fluctuating shadows in tumultuous confusion
1140 20| Not only do you read very fluently, but also you have made
1141 32| tulip." ~Cornelius's cheek flushed, his whole frame trembled,
1142 20| and the wall-flowers, will flutter with just as much love about
1143 14| from that quarter to perch fluttering on the pointed gables of
1144 3 | the first group, man was flying rather than running, his
1145 6 | was Van Baerle's deadly foe, would have marched under
1146 33| veil, which fell in rich folds from her head-dress of gold
1147 5 | were merging in the yellow foliage of a curtain of poplar trees,
1148 31| is certain that sluggish folk are of all men the most
1149 5 | for himself, from all the follies of his country and of his
1150 18| weakness, it would be a folly, it would be a meanness!
1151 7 | his feet resting on the foot-bar of the table, and his elbows
1152 6 | traces of the cats, their footmarks and hairs left behind on
1153 19| listened. ~The noise of her footstep, the rustling of her gown
1154 32| him once more. ~"Oh, be forbearing, be generous! my whole life
1155 4 | knit his brows in a very forbidding manner, restrained the glance
1156 7 | France; only the godfather forbore giving to his godson the
1157 5 | singlehanded against the combined forces of France and England. When,
1158 14| in the distance behind a forest of chimneys, he saw flocks
1159 2 | with foreboding doubt, had foretold, so it happened. Whilst
1160 26| Monseigneur, by usurpers, by forgers." ~"This is a crime, Mynheer
1161 2 | smile of the martyr, who forgets the dross of this earth
1162 11| on her velvet bodice and, forgetting everything in the world
1163 18| should never deserve to be forgiven. No, Rosa, no; to-morrow
1164 2 | calculating how long the formalities of the law would still detain
1165 24| for an accomplice. Am I, forsooth, in a den of thieves, --
1166 26| commence the examination forthwith. ~Van Systens, likewise
1167 28| keep down his tears and to fortify himself in his philosophy. ~
1168 3 | expression of most sublime fortitude. ~"But have you not got
1169 1 | the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the Dutch
1170 33| number, he said, amounted to forty-one; but at last, in order,
1171 7 | mincing the idol of her foster child. ~At the mere mention
1172 31| whose blood had stained the foul pavement of the Buytenhof,
1173 6 | generally said that the founders of the prize might just
1174 19| This was the case on the fourth day. ~It was pitiful to
1175 10| bending, that the bone was fractured, and that the patient must
1176 16| moist than dry without a fragment of stone or pebble." ~"Well
1177 2 | not be able to save the frail barque which is to carry
1178 5 | assured by the "Floriste Francaise," the most highly considered
1179 5 | of tulips at two thousand francs a bulb. ~Boxtel was quite
1180 32| said the officer, with that frank kindliness which is peculiar
1181 26| recognise it as mine I will frankly tell it; but if I do recognise
1182 6 | Baerle, caressed by the whole fraternity of tulip-growers in Europe,
1183 7 | on its way and which is fraught with a storm. ~Little dreaming
1184 2 | to him as if his spirit, freed from the trammels of the
1185 2 | agony, he once more breathed freely, on being informed that
1186 20| pronounced those few words in a freezing tone, which cut deeply into
1187 28| first time observed the frenzied features, the flashing eyes,
1188 18| say? Didn't he fume and fret?' ~"I interrupted him, saying, '
1189 25| appetite that his daughter was fretting rather too long. ~He sent
1190 18| eyes of the fair maid of Friesland. ~ ~
1191 31| covered with white velvet and fringed with gold. ~The handles
1192 26| boatman, a stout lad from Frisia, who was strong enough to
1193 20| the mould, which he gently frittered between his fingers to see
1194 23| the bulb being killed by frost. ~When the sun became too
1195 4 | to himself, with a dark frown and setting the spurs to
1196 31| loved the earth and its fruits had gradually gathered together
1197 15| scholars, and drink, smoke, and fuddle -- ah, yes, that's altogether
1198 23| pocket. ~Gryphus being once fuddled, Boxtel was very nearly
1199 3 | carriage drove off with the fugitives at the full speed of a pair
1200 32| proceeding to the green to fulfil his duty as chairman. He
1201 33| condition which was scrupulously fulfilled, although, or rather because,
1202 18| What did he say? Didn't he fume and fret?' ~"I interrupted
1203 15| to me, which was capital fun, but since a certain time --
1204 5 | falling on it as into a funnel, dried up, warmed, and fertilised
1205 17| fond of his bottle, tells funny stories, and moreover is
1206 3 | give to the demand of these furibund petitioners a very queer
1207 6 | those which were expected to furnish the black colour, exposed
1208 33| thanks to Rosa again, who has furnished the proofs of your innocence ---- " ~
1209 6 | All at once he perceived furrows and little mounds of earth
1210 11| Elder, who grew poppies at Gabii, and the Great Conde, who
1211 9 | the coping stones at the gable ends of the houses, Cornelius,
1212 14| fluttering on the pointed gables of Loewestein. ~These pigeons,
1213 2 | that an order must never be gainsaid." ~"But this order has been
1214 25| complete by his waddling gait which made him even more
1215 6 | his heart overflowing with gall now throbbed with triumphant
1216 25| President, Van Systens, who gallantly rose from his chair to meet
1217 28| There is nothing more galling to angry people than the
1218 9 | during the night horses had galloped at a smart pace over the
1219 3 | to the traitors! To the gallows with Cornelius de Witt!
1220 24| fellow, this monster, this gallows-bird of a conspirator, is your
1221 27| under the influence of a galvanic shock. ~"Ah!" muttered the
1222 28| sorcerer! you are making game of me, I believe," roared
1223 3 | open, or rather which was gaping like the edges of a wound, --
1224 5 | towards the houses by the garbage thrown every day from the
1225 11| dangerous men were engaged in gardening, just as if it had been
1226 5 | partition wall between their gardens, and, looking into that
1227 31| which were decorated with garlands and inscriptions, the procession
1228 5 | his abode in a miserable garret. ~Boxtel, then, was to have
1229 4 | commutation of the punishment, the gate-keeper will let us through." ~The
1230 3 | and stairs to the arched gateway, from which it was seen
1231 31| nor of the conquest of Gaul. The procession was as placid
1232 31| the Committee, who were as gay as a meadow, and as fragrant
1233 29| but talking together so gayly that Cornelius felt almost
1234 22| He opened his window, and gazed long, with swelling heart,
1235 22| remained at his window, gazing at the stars, and listening
1236 12| that the States, in their generosity to the illustrious publicist,
1237 31| gentlemen of the town councils generously treated the assemblage at
1238 26| going to answer her in a gentler tone, when at once a great
1239 6 | horrible crime in the eyes of a genuine tulip-fancier; as to killing
1240 12| for Loewestein, as the geographers tell us, is situated at
1241 5 | minutely finished as those of Gerard Dow, his master, and of
1242 32| his baton. ~Seeing the man gesticulate with imploring mien, and
1243 32| of the carriage window, gesticulating imploringly towards the
1244 6 | mouth, every step and every gesture of his neighbour; and whenever
1245 3 | his arms in all sorts of gestures, which plainly showed that
1246 29| a shame that this fellow gets off without having restored
1247 9 | that she might not see the ghastly spectacle. ~At midnight,
1248 31| for him, just as Banquo's ghost did that of Macbeth. ~And
1249 10| whom you see down there gibbeted, mangled, and torn to pieces?" ~"
1250 9 | the rising sun began to gild the coping stones at the
1251 31| platform, by the side of the gilded chair of his Highness the
1252 1 | with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders,
1253 31| horticultural metropolis. ~In fact, girt about as she was, breezy
1254 17| And his name?" ~"Jacob Gisels." ~"I don't know him." ~"
1255 33| returned his thanks to the Giver of all this happiness. ~
1256 3 | balcony?" asked the young man, glancing at the orator. ~"It is the
1257 6 | his laboratory, into the glazed cabinet whither Boxtel's
1258 3 | hideously distorted with satanic glee: this man was the surgeon
1259 17| your bulb, I saw a shadow gliding between the alder trees
1260 7 | the four quarters of the globe: The grand black tulip is
1261 32| allowed me to witness the glorification of my work." ~It was, indeed,
1262 7 | cheeks and his ears the glow of that evil counsellor
1263 22| upon his lips, and his face glued to the wicket in the door. ~
1264 24| this time. Yes, yes, just gnaw your paws like a bear in
1265 6 | be incapable -- made him, gnawed as he was with envy, centre
1266 7 | the Indian peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras, and
1267 13| as an offering to that goddess of envy who, as mythology
1268 29| very much obliged to you. Goodbye." ~The carriage drove away. ~"
1269 7 | which, after all, is a goodly sum for a man who is under
1270 11| Gryphus the only worldly goods which remain to me of all
1271 1 | trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals
1272 17| caught you?" and with this he grabbed in the soil. ~"I? nothing,
1273 8 | certain to win, in the year of grace 1673, the prize of a hundred
1274 33| with its perfection and gracefulness; he saw it surrounded by
1275 6 | with others by a sort of grafting, -- a minute and marvellously
1276 6 | meant when heating certain grains, then moistening them, then
1277 1 | son of William II., and grandson, by his mother Henrietta
1278 2 | of the Buytenhof. ~John gratefully raised his eyes to heaven. ~"
1279 1 | great man, was indeed some gratification to the passions of the people,
1280 28| of eating something that gratifies my palate, and of doing
1281 5 | having given him a screen gratis. ~Maybe this was not quite
1282 8 | following, however, the gravelled walks in order not to be
1283 29| his paper and pen into a greasy and well-worn writing-case. ~"
1284 1 | flattered by it, -- the sight of greatness hurled down into the dust. ~"
1285 28| ruthless fathers of the Greek drama? And when the Genievre
1286 7 | from the studio to the green-house, inspecting everything,
1287 8 | be raised like those of a greenhouse. Cornelius had opened them
1288 1 | gates of the prison, had greeted him and admitted him into
1289 26| herself, "I have made a grievous blunder; it may be I have
1290 29| his turnkeys to his lodge, groaning and covered with bruises. ~
1291 5 | yearly revenue in laying the groundwork of his collection, after
1292 1 | hundred yards, behind the groups of people and the dragoons,
1293 5 | having for background a dark grove of gigantic elms. The mansion
1294 31| painting, orchards and avenues, groves and parks. Haarlem went
1295 4 | I do myself," the Prince gruffly replied. ~The officer started
1296 31| to gardeners so many more guarantees of success than other places,
1297 11| staircase which was thus guarded above by himself, and below
1298 1 | file of horsemen who were guarding the approaches of the Buytenhof
1299 1 | only too often the sole guerdon obtained by honest people,
1300 17| of his darling bulb, and, guessing the cause of the ferocious
1301 5 | their way under skilful guidance by the shortest possible
1302 26| you any proofs of their guilt? ' ~"No, Monseigneur, the
1303 15| scholar. The soldiers smoke, guzzle, and get drunk; they are
1304 31| dressed in his richest habiliments. ~The worthy man had done
1305 2 | melancholy smile which was habitual to him, "the gentlemen at
1306 4 | the Silent, thou Sun, thou hadst best look to thy rays!" ~
1307 6 | cats, their footmarks and hairs left behind on the battle-field;
1308 4 | malice which glistened in his half-closed eye, and answered, -- ~"
1309 2 | flame which rises from the half-extinguished embers. ~He also thought
1310 31| inscriptions, the procession halted, amidst the sounds of lively
1311 4 | blacksmith had with his hammer struck down one of the horses,
1312 23| the mould which she had handled, to give her tulip the best
1313 31| fringed with gold. ~The handles of the litter were supported
1314 28| kill us while loving us,~We hang to the earth by a thread;~
1315 11| scaffold, and by some curious hangers-on of the prison. ~Cornelius,
1316 8 | not know, then, what is happening at this moment?" ~"How can
1317 3 | undertaking the difficult task of haranguing the mob; but the mob preferred
1318 18| overcome with fatigue, and harassed with remorse, the grand
1319 3 | iron gate leading to the harbor of Schevening, in which
1320 27| could that pure mind have harboured a secret without revealing
1321 15| remained on the block of Master Harbruck ---- " ~"What?" ~"You would
1322 13| golden box, -- as gold is the hardest of all metals? ~Every trifling
1323 14| listened. ~It was the sweet harmonious voice of Rosa. ~Let us confess
1324 3 | player on the keys of a harpsichord, betrayed his burning impatience,
1325 15| the gloomy prospect of the harshness with which, as he had before
1326 | hast
1327 3 | determined John de Witt to hasten the departure of his brother
1328 3 | the gate." ~John de Witt hastily got in, sat himself down
1329 10| cry which escaped him, a hasty step was heard on the staircase,
1330 14| leaving the male behind to hatch the eggs in her stead, flew
1331 1 | muskets, brandishing their hatchets, and looking death and defiance
1332 6 | by the superiority of his hated rival, was now completely
1333 19| more hideous, brutal, and hateful than usual; in his mind,
1334 19| whole of that day he was haunted with a vague uneasiness,
1335 4 | asked the coachman. ~"No, I haven't." ~"What has become of
1336 7 | opened it, but seeing what havoc he would necessarily cause
1337 17| the same rapidity as the hawk on its prey. ~As ill luck
1338 15| indistinctly, through the gray haze of the evening, the vast
1339 28| wandered over the distant hazy horizon where the windmills
1340 26| observed Rosa's gold brocade headdress and red petticoat. ~At the
1341 7 | Yes, sir, and they are headed by a magistrate." ~"What'
1342 2 | I am." ~"I am quite healed; help me to get up, and
1343 28| element." ~"A man, however healthy his appetite may be, would
1344 10| forgotten the abuse which he heaped on you this morning. Oh,
1345 2 | strong, he will, when he hears of what has happened to
1346 6 | what Cornelius meant when heating certain grains, then moistening
1347 22| glory in the mirror of Thy heavenly abode, and more clearly
1348 24| their sockets, and he fell heavily on the floor of his cell,
1349 28| melancholy of which was still heightened by its calm and sweet melody,
1350 13| the executioner, as the heir of the prisoner. ~In the
1351 11| in my stead, as my sole heiress, under the only condition
1352 10| my duty as a Christian in helping my neighbour." ~"Yes, and
1353 4 | instant the carriage was hemmed in between those who followed
1354 14| flavour of their wheat or hempseed. ~Chance, or rather God,
1355 6 | wither in the borders and henceforward occupied himself with nothing
1356 1 | grandson, by his mother Henrietta Stuart, of Charles I. of
1357 19| hereditary nobility of their heraldic bearings. Therefore, although
1358 19| emblazoned shop signs than the hereditary nobility of their heraldic
1359 | herein
1360 6 | condemn as schismatics and heretics and deserving of death the
1361 7 | or Orangists, to keep as heretofore my borders in splendid condition.
1362 | Hereupon
1363 31| its applause upon military heroes, or those who had won notable
1364 29| his jailer with the most heroic self-possession, and selecting
1365 21| Cornelius submitted most heroically to the pangs which the compulsory
1366 31| looking eagerly for the heroine of the festival, -- that
1367 20| the habit of doing in the heyday of their friendship. ~Cornelius
1368 3 | rather than running, his face hideously distorted with satanic glee:
1369 31| bushel under which he always hides his light! ~At length the
1370 20| he sneaked forth from his hiding-place, and approached the border
1371 19| was, that, as Rosa was a high-spirited creature, of no mean perception
1372 14| perhaps, it was a little higher, and had a splendid view
1373 31| of its victims upon the highest stone of the Dutch Pantheon. ~
1374 5 | Floriste Francaise," the most highly considered authority in
1375 3 | And, pushing back with the hilt of his sword the man who
1376 6 | two cats together by their hind legs with a string about
1377 4 | which swung creaking on its hinges. ~"Will Monseigneur avail
1378 1 | expected to share? ~"Moreover," hinted the Orange agitators interspersed
1379 25| went to a stable-keeper to hire a carriage. ~The man had
1380 31| same as when it begins to hiss. It never knows when to
1381 12| illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine, had granted
1382 14| flown. ~The cell had an historical character. We will only
1383 5 | tulip-growing, expending on this hobby his yearly revenue and the
1384 26| recognise the flower and its holder." ~"Well, I declare, here
1385 22| which opens, perhaps Rosa holds in this moment the stem
1386 31| character of those honest Hollanders, who were equally ready
1387 1 | of the cavalry officer. ~"Holloa!" he exclaimed, with that
1388 7 | bulb which he held in the hollow of his hand, he said: "Well,
1389 26| had struck her, just as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles
1390 31| who had never left their homes before; nor in the sallow,
1391 18| with a voice as sweet a honey, -- 'so you think that bulb
1392 20| just as much love about the honey-suckles, the rose, the jessamine,
1393 23| of the wild vine and the honeysuckle encircling her window. ~
1394 26| I am speaking to men of honor." ~There was such an expression
1395 25| that is to say, for the honorable Mynheer van Systens, Burgomaster
1396 25| you are cool enough." ~"Honoured sir," a little put out by
1397 29| going to treat me to the honours of the Esplanade." ~He uttered
1398 29| Gryphus continued, with horrid threats, to brandish his
1399 1 | person thus chosen; but that, horrified at the bare idea of the
1400 13| mastiff had torn from his hose did not discourage Boxtel.
1401 14| thrown themselves on her hospitality; and when Boxtel's servant
1402 1 | private life the hatred of a host of enemies, and the fresh
1403 5 | prescriptions, and given to his hotbeds just as much heat and fresh
1404 17| the veins that pale pink hue which shines before the
1405 14| our pen like the varied hues of a many coloured tapestry,
1406 10| sir! this is more than humanity, -- this is indeed Christian
1407 28| Umph, umph!" ~Cornelius was humming between his teeth the "Hymn
1408 6 | belonged to that natural, humorous school who took for their
1409 31| When a crowd is once in the humour to cheer, it is just the
1410 1 | Orange. ~The brothers De Witt humoured Louis XIV., whose moral
1411 28| into white, won't he die of hunger if he has no bread at all?" ~"
1412 4 | Cornelius, "I am afraid we have hurt some one." ~"Gallop! gallop!"
1413 17| this man may become your husband." ~"I don't say anything
1414 11| time, the prisoner is of hybrid character, of an amphibious
1415 27| reputation in this art; one of my hybrids is entered in the catalogue
1416 13| malice of the tiger, of the hyena, and of the serpent glistened
1417 11| Cornelius did not accept of this hypocritical protection, and in a last
1418 31| admiring the very purest ideal of tulips in full bloom, --
1419 14| him, for according to his ideas, a jailer ought never to
1420 1 | whimsical flights, does not identify a principle with a man,
1421 7 | to pieces and mincing the idol of her foster child. ~At
1422 9 | fatal passage leading to ignominious death. ~And as he was a
1423 30| and we shall leave him in ignorance of it until the course of
1424 1 | of Orange, son of William II., and grandson, by his mother
1425 15| giving utterance to this ill-natured promise, Gryphus put his
1426 30| you bear him a grudge for ill-treating some one in particular?" ~"
1427 2 | But your writing will be illegible." ~"Just leave me alone
1428 5 | thus consoling himself with illusory suppositions, Boxtel was
1429 1 | the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prince William
1430 5 | the most wretched night imaginable. ~ ~
1431 20| Cornelius smiled. ~"That is an imaginary lady love, at all events;
1432 31| of the great black tulip, immaculate and perfect, which should
1433 2 | bonds which connected his immortal being with his perishable
1434 7 | them I shall succeed in imparting scent to the tulip. Ah!
1435 1 | more threatening in their impassibility than all this crowd of burghers,
1436 17| My father might grow impatient not seeing me return, and
1437 30| scrutinising, and at the same time impenetrable glance, he said, -- ~"Now,
1438 1 | muttered the girl, as, on an imperative sign from her father, she
1439 4 | whether, through the almost imperceptible chink of the shutter, the
1440 32| have specks, it must be imperfect, it must only be dyed black.
1441 21| night he thought of this imperfection; that is to say, so long
1442 14| the old Frisian woman; and implored any charitable soul who
1443 32| the man gesticulate with imploring mien, and perhaps also recognising
1444 7 | deposit enclosed some newly imported bulbs from Bengal or Ceylon;
1445 20| laughing, "I will not ask for impossibilities." ~And, saying this, she
1446 27| been warned against this impostor and her witnesses." ~"Oh,
1447 28| more clearly he saw the impracticability of such an attempt. He was
1448 23| turned a second time left its impression on the wax. ~It cost Boxtel
1449 33| come to light that you were imprisoned for a crime which you had
1450 27| moment when she had the impudence to despatch a messenger
1451 28| carried away by the first impulse of the very natural terror
1452 7 | quite dumfounded at the imputation. ~"Now don't look astonished,
1453 27| guilty of the second crime imputed to him as he was of the
1454 13| servants, to remove the inanimate remains of his friend. ~
1455 23| in her affections, but inasmuch as, by talking to her of
1456 31| present at the ceremony of its inauguration; and, thirdly, it was a
1457 6 | Boxtel knew himself to be incapable -- made him, gnawed as he
1458 18| than that was!' I quite incautiously replied." ~"And what did
1459 6 | and, being more than ever incensed against the successful horticulturist,
1460 3 | Frisian linen, with which he incessantly wiped his brow or his burning
1461 3 | scene had watched all its incidents with intense interest, was
1462 6 | how often did he feel an inclination to jump down into the garden
1463 32| at least they will see it incompletely." ~"What is it you mean
1464 29| this proceeding, Mathias incontinently did then and there die. ~
1465 3 | them to approach within an inconvenient distance. ~"Stop!" he cried, "
1466 26| of news which seemed so incredible, I have come to know all
1467 22| you," (Rosa made a sign of incredulity,) "and then of what we must
1468 26| real judge, "I am going to incriminate myself very seriously." ~"
1469 25| source, and that it was incurable. ~On the one hand, separation
1470 27| and even at the risk of incurring your displeasure, Cornelius
1471 29| might be prolonged to an indefinite length, Cornelius, anxious
1472 5 | wonderful manufacture of India and China; and near these
1473 6 | Ceylon and China and the Indies, might, if so disposed,
1474 14| Cornelius felt himself perfectly indifferent as to the place where he
1475 2 | orders." ~As the Count was so indisputably in the right that it was
1476 15| enough to see, although indistinctly, through the gray haze of
1477 13| such a keen anxiety as the individual just alluded to. ~The most
1478 3 | question will be discussed indoors, Captain. Come along, and
1479 5 | miserable. ~Consequently, and to indulge his own idea of happiness,
1480 25| hand, separation became inevitable, -- Gryphus having at the
1481 31| Nature, and had forced the inexhaustible mother to be delivered of
1482 28| again, and the gleam of that infernal sword, -- which will not
1483 6 | to his characters of the Inferno, he might have chosen Boxtel
1484 11| Stadtholder of Holland would feel infinitely obliged to the magistracy
1485 12| that the headsman might inflict more than one stroke, that
1486 7 | abrupt entrance was such an infringement on the established rules
1487 6 | taken root in his clear and ingenious mind, began slowly the necessary
1488 6 | begun to apply his natural ingenuity to his new fancy, than he
1489 14| morning, whilst at his window inhaling the fresh air which came
1490 1 | by inveighing against the iniquitous judges, who had allowed
1491 11| shagreen, which bore the initials C. W. ~"What is this?" asked
1492 24| notwithstanding all my injunctions, you left the key behind,
1493 5 | the same apartment might injure his bulbs and seedlings,
1494 5 | discovery that too much sun was injurious to tulips, and that this
1495 8 | servant, not without some inkling that, whilst deploring the
1496 9 | jailer received this new inmate, and saw from the warrant
1497 19| announced, not only to the inmates of the fortress, but also
1498 3 | two brothers through an inner lobby to the back of the
1499 31| right at a future day to inscribe the names of its victims
1500 33| name of its grower, will be inscribed in the book of honour of
1501 31| decorated with garlands and inscriptions, the procession halted,
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