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Chapter
1502 5 | the study of plants and insects, collected and classified
1503 31| enemies. ~For in the most insignificant words of men of political
1504 3 | is the order!" a hundred insolent voices answered at once. ~
1505 7 | studio to the green-house, inspecting everything, from the pictures
1506 21| father's first and second inspection." ~"Yes, Rosa, let it be
1507 23| Cornelius. ~He had not been installed more than three days in
1508 3 | charged with having been the instigator of all this work, indeed,
1509 6 | to master with the true instinct of genius, that Boxtel at
1510 11| everything in the world besides, instinctively grasped the precious deposit
1511 24| ruefully. ~"One minute only, to instruct our messenger, who lives
1512 4 | has been your Highness's instructor? If there be any means,
1513 31| wonder; that Holland, by the instrumentality of him, Boxtel, has forced
1514 17| the flesh tint. ~Rosa's intellect rapidly developed itself
1515 5 | guilders, devoting all his intellectual and financial resources
1516 29| must he die without any intelligence of the black tulip, and
1517 7 | that is to say, all the intelligent people of Europe -- will
1518 28| akimbo. ~"It seems your intention to threaten me, Master Gryphus." ~"
1519 21| near, not by accident, but intentionally, and Cornelius kissed her
1520 7 | was, as Delphi of old, interdicted to the profane uninitiated. ~
1521 5 | that, having to paint the interior of a tulip-grower's, he
1522 15| heard nothing of this short interlude; and, after having closed
1523 3 | then heard addressing an interpellation to Mynheer Bowelt, whom
1524 1 | posterity. But when Satan interposes in human affairs to cast
1525 31| and hence think they can interpret, something of their true
1526 11| loved my flowers. Don't interrupt me, Rosa dear, I have only
1527 25| canals, rivers, and rivulets intersecting the country, is exceedingly
1528 1 | hinted the Orange agitators interspersed through the crowd, whom
1529 9 | east wind, had thrown up at intervals a sudden glare as far as
1530 10| Cornelius had made use of the intervening moments to take off the
1531 7 | aloof from every sort of intrigue. ~And, besides, if the parcel
1532 23| the tulip; the second, to introduce himself into the dry-room
1533 11| Behind this turnkey, who introduced the Recorder, Rosa, the
1534 4 | it was with the mass of intruders. ~"Gone, gone," repeated
1535 22| duplicate of the protocol, and intrust the tulip to him. Ah! if
1536 26| on seeing his staircase invaded, up to the very landing-place,
1537 16| to keep her pretty face invariably six inches distant from
1538 8 | 8. An Invasion~ The incident just
1539 1 | began to vent its rage by inveighing against the iniquitous judges,
1540 6 | windows, Boxtel saw the inventive genius of his rival at work. ~
1541 13| deny, was a very handsome investment. ~The headsman, on the other
1542 2 | might still consider herself invincible in the midst of her marshes
1543 26| Systens, likewise at the invitation of the young man in the
1544 21| cried Cornelius. "Is the involucrum open? but then one may see
1545 33| He saw Cornelius make an involuntary movement; and lastly he
1546 11| was done. ~This confession involved the godson in the crime
1547 11| yard through the narrow iron-barred window of his cell, he perceived
1548 15| whilst the prisoner smiled ironically at the old jailer, Rosa,
1549 21| late, was now cheered and irradiated by the light of love. ~When
1550 28| feel a strange and almost irresistible pugnacity. Well, I shall
1551 29| Cornelius felt that he was irretrievably lost. ~In fact, appearances
1552 13| metals? ~Every trifling delay irritated him. Why did that stupid
1553 13| meant, -- ~"It's a bargain, isn't it?" ~The executioner
1554 20| himself quite alone, quite isolated, and out of everybody's
1555 16| brought to a successful issue!" ~"I know it all now,"
1556 3 | from which it was seen issuing like waters from a spout. ~
1557 31| girls, with red cheeks and ivory bosoms; nor in the fat,
1558 2 | suppose you killed every man Jack of us, those whom we should
1559 14| famous book-chest which the jailers forgot to examine. ~On the
1560 17| those who are sent into jails to watch both prisoners
1561 31| travellers from Ceylon or Java; nor in the thirsty crowds,
1562 8 | paper, slipped into the jaws of the bronze lions at Venice,
1563 28| Gryphus went on, in his jeering way, "as you are a sorcerer,
1564 20| honey-suckles, the rose, the jessamine, and the carnation." ~"What
1565 31| velvet, dark purple silk, and jet-black cloth, with linen of dazzling
1566 7 | dry-room, "take your gold, your jewelry, and fly, fly!" ~"But how
1567 29| tale, when footsteps and a jingling of spurs were heard ascending
1568 9 | quite enchanted with his joke, the ferocious Orangeman
1569 16| grow, I shall have several journeys to convey it to you, as
1570 33| thunderstruck, and Cornelius, in joyful amazement, both exclaimed, -- ~"
1571 11| to die calmly, and even joyfully, as he dies a martyr. Come,
1572 22| came, and with it Rosa, joyous and cheerful as a bird. ~"
1573 14| eggs in her stead, flew joyously to Dort, with the note under
1574 17| which he had rested so many joys and so many hopes. ~"We
1575 7 | carefully sealed, which Boxtel, judging from the manner in which
1576 19| she took a very clear and judicious view of her own social position,
1577 6 | heat; the clear water, the juices of the earth, and the cool
1578 17| destruction, got a glimpse of the juicy remains of his darling bulb,
1579 22| was to meet the lips of Julie a hundred years later. ~
1580 12| the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine,
1581 11| might be produced as his justification. ~Cornelius replied that
1582 29| which had provoked and might justify his offence, Cornelius felt
1583 31| is a pleasant city, which justly prides itself on being one
1584 1 | the first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and,
1585 33| old man made the rudest keeper of flowers in the whole
1586 17| both prisoners and their keepers." ~"I don't believe that,"
1587 17| under my point lace, which keeps it dry, without pressing
1588 13| began to belabour him with kicks and cuffs, such as could
1589 32| officer, with that frank kindliness which is peculiar to military
1590 1 | existence, or to overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens that
1591 11| with a melancholy smile, kissing the trembling hands of the
1592 5 | thrown every day from the kitchens into the river. ~Craeke,
1593 15| lantern with it." ~Gryphus knitted his brow. "Now, that's just
1594 1 | citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets
1595 3 | his lieutenant with the knob of his sword; "I really
1596 27| in the words, -- ~"Thou knowest best for what end Thou madest
1597 28| and crippled; I should be labelled, and put on exhibition in
1598 5 | There were bundles of labels, cupboards, and drawers
1599 5 | beloved by his servants and labourers; nor had he any conception
1600 27| thoughts were wandering in that labyrinth without a goal and without
1601 22| was under the sun.' I only lack one thing, Rosa." ~"And
1602 19| himself with giving the laconical answer, -- ~"All's well." ~
1603 19| Nobody," replied, even more laconically, the jailer, shutting the
1604 24| your eyes. I tell you, my lambkins, you shall not much longer
1605 22| smooth and straight as iron lance-heads; the whole of the flower
1606 5 | hero of this story, as his landed property in the province
1607 25| This report was written on large-sized paper, in the finest handwriting
1608 16| tender an anxiety as he had lately shown to herself. ~"Well,"
1609 19| prisoner entertained some latent hope that Rosa would, somehow
1610 11| course, you do not understand Latin, and might therefore forget
1611 10| Mynheer Cornelius de Witt, laughed in a very strange and very
1612 31| its illustrious and devout leaders, whose blood had stained
1613 3 | apparently unarmed; his arm was lean but wiry, and his hands
1614 15| bulbs." ~Cornelius's heart leaped with joy. He had not yet
1615 5 | on a wooden stool, or a leathern chair, in a counting-house
1616 17| raise his jug below the ledge of tiles and stone before
1617 8 | houses of Amsterdam their ledgers, Boxtel read these lines: -- ~"
1618 5 | When, guided by the pilot Leger, he had come within musket-shot
1619 19| already able to write a legible hand when Cornelius so uncautiously
1620 8 | unfortunate Van Baerle had so leisurely, and with such intense delight,
1621 22| one hand she raised to the level of the grating a dark lantern,
1622 6 | into a belief that he was levelling a never-failing musket at
1623 28| who strikes a prisoner is liable to two penalties, -- the
1624 5 | visited, as the galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by illustrious
1625 1 | fidelity to liberty without licentiousness, and prosperity without
1626 4 | moment veiled behind the lids. ~The officer saw this sign
1627 1 | them single-handed, merely lifting his sword and contracting
1628 23| Boxtel touched with a still lighter hand the lock of Rosa's
1629 7 | seizing the candlestick, and lighting him on his way down to the
1630 24| tulip. The flower was so lightly pressed upon all sides,
1631 7 | servants who were carrying the lights respectfully fell back.
1632 5 | eyes and ears by a man who likes to use his reflective powers
1633 6 | to write, and to that we limit ourselves, however alluring
1634 25| its chalice, and his two limp arms representing the double
1635 29| All at once, Gryphus, limping, staggering, and supporting
1636 31| arches of magnificent oaks, lindens, and chestnuts. ~Haarlem, --
1637 5 | started amongst all the Linnaeuses and Tourneforts a tulip
1638 8 | into the jaws of the bronze lions at Venice, produce a more
1639 17| complexion of Rosa, her blue liquid eyes, and her golden hair
1640 6 | seeds, and soaking them in liquids which were destined to modify
1641 5 | who, being expelled from Lisbon, had retired to the island
1642 5 | he left his horse at a livery stable in order not to arouse
1643 5 | ground disposed in beds of loam mixed with river mud (a
1644 23| garden, but also to the lobbies. ~Only as this time he followed
1645 17| dearest Rosa, be careful in locking up the third sucker which
1646 25| Rosa answered not. ~The locksmith of the fortress was sent
1647 17| three hundred of them in my loft." ~"To the devil with your
1648 3 | Rosa, they emerged into a lonely street where their carriage
1649 31| At length the great and long-expected day -- May 15, 1673 -- arrived;
1650 14| the river, and casting a longing look to the windmills of
1651 20| eight years. I am on the look-out for that young man, and
1652 1 | fortunes of the Grand Monarch loomed in the future, was William,
1653 14| old city Dort, which were looming in the distance behind a
1654 18| collar; but he immediately loosed him. Then, turning towards
1655 24| Cornelius, he gradually loosened his hold of the bars, which
1656 2 | perishable frame gradually loosening, that it seemed to him as
1657 20| the faculty of reading the love-letters which she received. ~"As
1658 21| wings, whilst others were lovingly cooing on the roof or near
1659 17| of which he was able to lower or to raise his jug below
1660 3 | immediately sallied forth, with lowered arms and fierce shouts,
1661 21| had been heavy, dark, and lowering, as it were, with all its
1662 23| with her light foot the lowest step of the staircase, Boxtel
1663 19| poor Rosa, the jailer's lowly child. ~Thus Rosa understood
1664 9 | city closed. ~A momentary lull had therefore set in whilst
1665 23| Texel to Antwerp, and he lulled the suspicion of the jealous
1666 19| tulip, indeed, was still a luminous and prominent object in
1667 22| the hills. He filled his lungs with the pure, sweet air,
1668 5 | rushes, and abounding in luxurious vegetation, whereon flocks
1669 31| Banquo's ghost did that of Macbeth. ~And yet, if the truth
1670 6 | that Boxtel at last was maddened to such a degree as to think
1671 27| knowest best for what end Thou madest my good Cornelius teach
1672 29| long as it remained in the madman's hand, the ruffian might
1673 24| continued, passing from the madness of anger to the cool irony
1674 7 | peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras, and especially in that
1675 11| infinitely obliged to the magistracy of the Hague if they simplified
1676 13| roared in honour of the most magnanimous Stadtholder, mixing with
1677 31| popular adoration, will take a magnificently emblazoned parchment, on
1678 16| jailer, in his zeal, had magnified with all the power of his
1679 22| his lips met those of the maiden, -- not by chance, nor by
1680 33| a raised step among the maidens of Haarlem, a beautiful
1681 28| myself, I should be picked up maimed and crippled; I should be
1682 6 | him pleasure if we were to maintain and establish that nothing
1683 12| granted to him for his daily maintenance the sum of twenty-four stivers. ~"
1684 7 | appeared. ~One of them, tall, majestic, stern, sat down near the
1685 20| after having finished my make-believe work, I retired." ~"But
1686 6 | towards him such a volley of maledictions and furious threats as to
1687 4 | wish," William of Orange malignantly muttered to himself, with
1688 28| preceding days too much fury and malignity in the eyes of old Gryphus
1689 31| for the construction of a man-of-war -- that is to say, for the
1690 23| ambition of the father, he managed, at the same time, to interest
1691 14| who was his nurse, has the management of it. As soon as I received
1692 6 | and marvellously delicate manipulation, -- and when he shut up
1693 6 | child-like musings and of manly genius -- this patient untiring
1694 6 | Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his beds, whilst,
1695 1 | destinies on the hidden map of the future. ~The Grand
1696 6 | with purple and pink, the "Marble of Rotterdam," colour of
1697 2 | hundred others; "let us march to the Town-hall; let us
1698 7 | his godfather with every mark of respect, and put it by
1699 21| From that hour every day marked some progress in the growth
1700 18| a hundred of them in the market of Gorcum.' ~"'Perhaps some
1701 31| splendour of their shops and markets, Haarlem's claims to fame
1702 19| than did the last stroke, marking the ninth hour, through
1703 4 | indignation," said the young marl, with the same impassible
1704 33| after two years of her married life, could read and write
1705 2 | invincible in the midst of her marshes and canals." ~"All this
1706 12| is to say, more than one martyrdom, on the poor tulip-fancier. ~
1707 6 | grafting, -- a minute and marvellously delicate manipulation, --
1708 6 | feelings of an artist, the master-piece of a rival engrossed his
1709 5 | ever used to designate that masterpiece of floriculture which is
1710 9 | the pavement, and the slow matches of the arquebuses, flaring
1711 1 | and the pressure of whose material power Holland had been made
1712 6 | a man, it would not have mattered so very much. ~Yet Van Baerle
1713 7 | than Alexander, Caesar, or Maximilian. ~"Oh the admirable bulbs!" ~
1714 | Maybe
1715 31| Committee, who were as gay as a meadow, and as fragrant as a garden
1716 7 | who was just taking his meal by his fireside. He inquired
1717 | meantime
1718 17| towards her; "don't you meddle with what don't concern
1719 10| said Gryphus, "are you a medical man?" ~"It was formerly
1720 28| vulgar, that high road of mediocrity which leads to everything. ~"
1721 8 | least detail of the private meeting between Cornelius de Witt
1722 21| is the first object that meets my eyes, and on falling
1723 28| heightened by its calm and sweet melody, exasperated Gryphus. ~He
1724 28| break, or my wings would melt in the sun; I should surely
1725 17| agony, which would have melted the heart even of that ruthless
1726 3 | which grew more and more menacing against the two brothers,
1727 5 | upon which De Ruyter, his mentor, made so sharp and well
1728 19| Cornelius belonged to the merchant-bourgeoisie, who were prouder of their
1729 15| expose them to the tender mercies of his bullying jailer,
1730 5 | outlines of its roof were merging in the yellow foliage of
1731 1 | rogues will in France make merry with our money, with the
1732 27| Rosa obeyed, as if under mesmeric influence, without having
1733 10| brought the prisoner his mess, slipped on the damp flags
1734 15| away for ever those gentle messengers to whom he owed the happiness
1735 19| struck nine. Never did the metal voice vibrate more forcibly
1736 13| gold is the hardest of all metals? ~Every trifling delay irritated
1737 31| speaking, the horticultural metropolis. ~In fact, girt about as
1738 23| female figures of Mieris and Metzys, Rosa appeared at that window
1739 5 | whilst keeping out slugs, mice, dormice, and rats, all
1740 9 | see that a hurricane of mighty fury had vented itself upon
1741 2 | intentions of his own beloved militia, shouted most lustily, -- ~"
1742 6 | the "Beauty of Brabant," milk-white, edged with purple and pink,
1743 7 | of pulling to pieces and mincing the idol of her foster child. ~
1744 26| struck her, just as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles by the hair
1745 2 | the very moment when the mingled shouts of the burgher guard
1746 7 | Marquis de Louvois, the war minister of the King of France; only
1747 5 | paintings, which were as minutely finished as those of Gerard
1748 1 | to force. ~It was a real miracle that on that day he escaped
1749 22| held to the same height the miraculous tulip. ~Cornelius uttered
1750 1 | with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and
1751 1 | Christian charity. ~This daring miscreant detailed, with all the embellishments
1752 4 | On this, every one of the miscreants, emboldened by his fall,
1753 18| watch over it as a miser over his first or last piece
1754 12| stivers, and I shall live miserably; but never mind, at all
1755 27| and uneasy, tormented by misgivings about that paper which William
1756 20| I regretted, you whom I missed, you whose absence I felt
1757 29| here is a fellow who never misses giving consolation whenever
1758 25| vain, the tulip was still missing; the tulip was indeed stolen. ~
1759 24| dear Cornelius, is he? Ah! Missy has communications with
1760 13| affairs had taken. They, mistaking the frantic cries of Mynheer
1761 16| Van Baerle, having become mistrustful in his captivity, continued, "
1762 6 | flower-beds of his neighbour. The mists of the morning chilled his
1763 12| exclaimed, "how damp and misty that part of the country
1764 5 | been sundered by the least misunderstanding during their lives, and
1765 13| magnanimous Stadtholder, mixing with it a spice of abuse
1766 6 | Cornelius van Baerle, the modest and inoffensive savant. ~
1767 8 | notwithstanding all his modesty, had not been able to hide
1768 6 | tulips, and meditated on the modifications which might be effected
1769 16| and, if it be necessary, modified it, we will divide our three
1770 6 | heating certain grains, then moistening them, then combining them
1771 16| the sun, and abundance of moisture." ~"All true, all true,"
1772 1 | the fortunes of the Grand Monarch loomed in the future, was
1773 5 | Soon people from Dort to Mons began to talk of Mynheer
1774 31| twenty-one years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed
1775 22| vault of heaven, and the moon, which shone like silver
1776 5 | for as to toiling from morn to evening on a wooden stool,
1777 21| he no longer found him morose and lying in bed, but standing
1778 28| pigeon is a very dainty morsel, and a man who eats one
1779 1 | was severely although not mortally wounded. ~This by no means
1780 32| messenger unavailable to other mortals had already been apprised
1781 5 | the fine red brick houses, mortared in white lines, standing
1782 15| only give them brandy or Moselle, but scholars, and drink,
1783 33| him watching the obnoxious moths and butterflies, killing
1784 10| threshold, where he remained motionless and cold, as if dead. ~During
1785 6 | school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century
1786 6 | perceived furrows and little mounds of earth on the beds which
1787 32| miserable; the one going to mount a throne, the other believing
1788 29| dotting the slopes of a mountain ridge. ~A protocol of the
1789 9 | whilst the prisoner was mounting the staircase, appeared
1790 1 | French refugees for the mouthpiece of their spite. Their national
1791 7 | enter, by opening one of the movable sashes of the glass front. ~
1792 6 | with hideous caterwaulings, mowing down with their string the
1793 13| of the Hague, with their muddy feet, had passed over him. ~
1794 31| their Sunday clothes, and munching their heavy cakes; nor in
1795 8 | hour the burghers must be murdering Mynheer Cornelius and Mynheer
1796 33| beauty excited a general murmur of applause. ~"Oh!" muttered
1797 26| So it is, sir," Rosa murmured in dismay; "yes, I am bound
1798 28| put on exhibition in the museum at the Hague between the
1799 6 | same time of child-like musings and of manly genius -- this
1800 29| very cleverly lodged a musket-ball each in his body. ~In consequence
1801 29| flinching receive as many musket-balls as that Mathias." ~Saying
1802 5 | Leger, he had come within musket-shot of the "Prince," with the
1803 7 | the Hague." ~Cornelius, in mute stupefaction, embraced his
1804 32| Is this person the mutinous prisoner who has attempted
1805 5 | their lives, and by their mutual devotion in the face of
1806 4 | fired a pistol with the muzzle to his face; and this time
1807 10| a swoon, that the dog is muzzled, and that consequently there
1808 16| Rosa was taught all the mysteries of the art, formed the principal
1809 16| as before, with the same mysteriousness and the same precaution.
1810 13| goddess of envy who, as mythology teaches us, wears a head-dress
1811 | namely
1812 15| because, thanks to this nap, I shall be able to come
1813 28| make acquaintance with the nape of my neck. ~"It will not
1814 1 | the middle of which our narrative commences, were not indissolubly
1815 11| brothers De Witt against Dutch nationality and in their secret relations
1816 5 | of a cult of it than ever naturalists dared to make of the human
1817 31| fetes; never did sluggish natures manifest more eager energy
1818 21| t talk in that way, you naughty girl." ~That evening Cornelius
1819 26| two officers, one of the navy, and the other of the cavalry. ~
1820 1 | Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might
1821 4 | being relieved from the necessity of witnessing the shocking
1822 15| shall certainly wring their necks before twenty-four hours
1823 21| long, and tapers like a needle, the cylinder swells at
1824 4 | was life and liberty, he neglected every precaution, and set
1825 18| What do I know?' I said, negligently; 'do I understand anything
1826 2 | against us that we have negotiated with France." ~"What blockheads
1827 2 | it." ~"And yet, if these negotiations had been successful, they
1828 31| Haarlem, swelled by her neighbours, was gathered in the beautiful
1829 31| the most shady in all the Netherlands. ~While other towns boast
1830 2 | He was so absorbed in his never-ceasing pain that it had almost
1831 6 | that he was levelling a never-failing musket at him; and then
1832 | nevertheless
1833 4 | or eight others. ~These new-comers evidently meant mischief
1834 9 | dog rushed forth from a niche in the wall, shaking his
1835 9 | left she held her white night-dress closely over her breast,
1836 19| last stroke, marking the ninth hour, through the heart
1837 16| complain most bitterly of Noah for having put a couple
1838 19| signs than the hereditary nobility of their heraldic bearings.
1839 31| magistrates, the military, the nobles and the boors. ~The people,
1840 19| say, upon the proudest and noblest of flowers, rather than
1841 19| evening none of those little noises broke the silence of the
1842 9 | violently slamming the door, and noisily drawing the bolts. ~Recovering
1843 29| Yes, Captain," answered a non-commissioned officer. ~"Then this is
1844 5 | sufficient shade to temper the noonday heat; aspect south-southwest;
1845 30| beyond Leyden, having the North Sea on his left, and the
1846 31| curious. ~At the head of the notables and of the Horticultural
1847 17| atom of soil, without his noticing it." ~"Oh, yes, yes, he
1848 1 | letters V. C. (Vi Coactus), notifying thereby that he only yielded
1849 17| which are the delight of the novelist who has to describe them. ~
1850 4 | alluded to had, for its nucleus, those three men whom we
1851 6 | have equalled in point of numbers. ~And also, if Dante had
1852 20| Rosa. But I am afraid the nursing of my tulip will take up
1853 16| circumstances which may interest our nursling; such as change of weather,
1854 6 | approaching even to a dark nut brown. It was, therefore,
1855 6 | obtained flowers of a perfect nut-brown, and Boxtel espied them
1856 31| lovely arches of magnificent oaks, lindens, and chestnuts. ~
1857 4 | a volley of the fiercest oaths. ~"Alas!" said Cornelius, "
1858 4 | to his sense of military obedience than to his pleasure at
1859 2 | their pay, I faithfully obey their orders." ~As the Count
1860 11| falling down senseless, still obeying her friend, had pressed
1861 18| her father would make no objection to his cultivating flowers. ~"
1862 7 | for a man who is under no obligation whatever. Then, with the
1863 30| being questioned. ~That obliging person would undoubtedly
1864 33| to see him watching the obnoxious moths and butterflies, killing
1865 6 | Haarlem," the "Colombin obscur," and the "Columbin clair
1866 5 | instead of being some unknown, obscure gardener, was the godson
1867 9 | details are absorbed in the obscurity, the mastiff, with his eyes
1868 3 | subject for physiognomical observations which at the first blush
1869 14| house, his servants, his observatory, and his telescope, but
1870 11| character of a profound observer, laid down as his opinion
1871 26| Van Systens. ~The Prince, observing the fright of Rosa and the
1872 7 | unless it were to allow some occasional rays of the sun to enter,
1873 4 | they felt a severe shock, occasioned by the rearing of the horses.
1874 7 | in his opinion, was more occult than alchemy itself? ~It
1875 6 | and thus his favourite occupation was changed into a constant
1876 33| in the latter of which occupations he was so successful that
1877 11| The last thought which occupies my mind, however has reference
1878 10| being told that you are occupying the cell of Mynheer Cornelius
1879 1 | concurrence of circumstances does occur, history is prompt to record
1880 7 | succeed in giving it the odour of the rose or the carnation,
1881 29| provoked and might justify his offence, Cornelius felt that he
1882 26| cognizance to take of political offences. Go on, young woman, go
1883 19| then, was not ill, she was offended; she had not been forcibly
1884 6 | he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure." ~By
1885 29| minutes, Gryphus on the offensive, and Van Baerle on the defensive. ~
1886 4 | Monseigneur replied, in an offhand manner; "and the greatest
1887 1 | be deposed from all his offices and dignities; to pay all
1888 29| them, which the man, in his official complaisance, would not
1889 11| They considered that every offshoot of civil discord is mischievous,
1890 7 | name shall we call this offspring of my sleepless nights,
1891 7 | in that island which in olden times, as is asserted, was
1892 14| Van Baerle an auspicious omen that this very cell was
1893 15| less yours than mine." ~"Omittance is no acquittance," growled
1894 16| of turnkey was not a very onerous one, but rather a sort of
1895 2 | bandages drops of blood oozed out which the pressure of
1896 6 | already withering, the sap oozing from their bleeding bulbs:
1897 20| had grasped through the openings of the grating for the receding
1898 19| time for that momentous operation. The weather was propitious;
1899 31| their friends and their opponents always endeavour to detect,
1900 2 | threats, to which the Count opposed the most perfect urbanity. ~"
1901 29| Cornelius, whose heart felt oppressed by the first dread of death. "
1902 11| that he needs no longer any oppressive means to ruin him. ~Cornelius
1903 9 | his joke, the ferocious Orangeman took his cresset and his
1904 13| from the stone upon some Orangemen, who, like him, were sorely
1905 1 | threats of death from the Orangist rabble, who besieged him
1906 3 | young man, glancing at the orator. ~"It is the Deputy Bowelt,"
1907 31| to music and painting, orchards and avenues, groves and
1908 9 | sufferings which God might ordain for him. ~Then turning again
1909 25| of the black tulip, and ordering the hundred thousand guilders
1910 20| the unconcerned air of an ordinary visitor of the garden." ~"
1911 11| character, of an amphibious organisation, working with equal ardour
1912 24| tulip, and, breaking the original flower-pot, threw the pieces
1913 33| Holland. ~The two principal ornaments of his drawing-room were
1914 30| and the tulip, like two orphan sisters, had been left by
1915 2 | prevented the defeats of Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg; the
1916 15| tender kiss. ~At this sudden outburst of tenderness, Rosa grew
1917 13| a better place; but he, outdoing even them, had passed the
1918 31| which did not wish to be outdone, voted a like sum, which
1919 6 | future against a similar outrage, he gave orders that henceforth
1920 11| of the Stadtholder, the outraged remains of the two brothers
1921 15| I tell you, at the very outset, it won't be such an easy
1922 32| driving along the road on the outskirts of the green on which the
1923 21| were hovering about with outspread wings, whilst others were
1924 11| halberds, only a form lying outstretched near a wooden bench, and
1925 20| he perceived that he was outwitted. Then, keeping down the
1926 1 | only defence of the prison, overawed by its firm attitude not
1927 6 | whole tale, and his heart overflowing with gall now throbbed with
1928 4 | Buytenhof, in the shade of the overhanging weather-board of a closed
1929 29| who was at his heels, to overhear him. ~That kind soul very
1930 16| window of my sleeping-room overlooks it." ~"Well, on moonlight
1931 9 | brothers when they were overtaken by the murderers, thanks
1932 1 | some happy existence, or to overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens
1933 4 | men before him, whom he overtook about a hundred yards farther
1934 17| me," continued Cornelius, overwhelmed with grief. ~"After all,
1935 31| In the centre of this pacific and fragrant cortege the
1936 24| fresh moss, in which he packed the tulip. The flower was
1937 1 | we are wont on the first page to promise amusement, and
1938 31| waits until the triumphal pageants have passed, to know what
1939 1 | mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about to add
1940 23| He saw Rosa washing in pails of water her pretty little
1941 32| tone; "the joy of others pains me; please spare me this
1942 5 | possible, that, having to paint the interior of a tulip-grower'
1943 5 | was not for the sake of painted tulips, but for real ones,
1944 31| of peace, -- to music and painting, orchards and avenues, groves
1945 3 | fugitives at the full speed of a pair of spirited Flemish horses.
1946 28| something that gratifies my palate, and of doing something
1947 27| flashed, and a death-like paleness spread over his impassible
1948 26| the fright of Rosa and the pallor of the President, raised
1949 19| repress as it were its violent palpitation, and listened. ~The noise
1950 1 | of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob,
1951 15| the officers who went to parade, all the clerks, and even
1952 1 | one of the foremost, being paraded about by the Orange party
1953 7 | asserted, was the terrestrial paradise, and which is called Ceylon, --
1954 19| who had told him that its parapet overlooked the river. He
1955 1 | be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading
1956 31| and avenues, groves and parks. Haarlem went wild about
1957 2 | he was firm, he began to parley with the burghers, under
1958 2 | increasing fury. Tilly was parleying with the burghers. ~"Well,
1959 1 | although I certainly am more partial to happy faces than to gloomy
1960 11| appearance of a tulip-fancier, participated in the detestable intrigues
1961 17| imploringly, and anxious as the partridge robbed of her young by the
1962 20| soil is composed of three parts of common mould, taken from
1963 9 | called it, -- as the fatal passage leading to ignominious death. ~
1964 28| not like to lose it; one's passion is roused, and one's blood
1965 18| prisoners -- that for them any pastime is of value. This poor Mynheer
1966 25| hastening along one of the side paths of a very pretty road by
1967 1 | depart!" advised one of the patriots who had gained the start
1968 9 | the heavy tramp of the patrols had resounded from the pavement,
1969 32| more, -- ~"The feast of the patron saint of Haarlem? as I see
1970 20| after which followed a pause. ~"Well," -- Cornelius at
1971 21| Here the prisoner paused, anxiously taking breath. ~"
1972 13| his hurry he overlooked a paving-stone in his way, stumbled, lost
1973 24| Yes, yes, just gnaw your paws like a bear in his cage,
1974 19| finished without a tear, the pearl of love, rolling from her
1975 20| from Cornelius this dew of pearls dropping on her cheeks, "
1976 31| cakes; nor in the poor young peasants, gnawing smoked eels as
1977 16| without a fragment of stone or pebble." ~"Well done, Rosa, well
1978 23| acquainted with all the peculiarities of the door of her chamber.
1979 31| proud tulip, raised on its pedestal, soon overlooked the assembled
1980 6 | pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the ground, to that
1981 23| But when the first leaves peeped out of the earth Boxtel
1982 17| of vegetation was already peeping forth, had not heard old
1983 20| shines. But when it once peeps out of the ground, I shall
1984 17| some years before killed Pelisson's spider. ~The idea of striking
1985 28| prisoner is liable to two penalties, -- the first laid down
1986 27| evil-doer shall pay the penalty for both. A man of his name
1987 5 | its way into Spain, and penetrated as far as Portugal; and
1988 7 | must have in the Indian peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras,
1989 18| continued Cornelius, with a pensive air. ~"What?" ~"Did you
1990 7 | the distant and scarcely perceptible cloud which is increasing
1991 19| high-spirited creature, of no mean perception and a noble heart, she took
1992 5 | iron constitution and keen perceptions, and his capital of more
1993 14| coming from that quarter to perch fluttering on the pointed
1994 13| themselves eager to see the perfidious blood of the guilty Cornelius
1995 2 | place to us, and you will perform the part of a good citizen." ~"
1996 11| were obliged to make in performance of their duty. ~Then, casting
1997 4 | name it, and if I should perish in the attempt ---- " ~William
1998 2 | immortal being with his perishable frame gradually loosening,
1999 1 | act which he was asked to perpetrate, he had preferred rather
2000 29| which a man's memory is perpetuated." ~Repressing his melancholy
2001 2 | fixing his eyes on his perplexed brother; "a tumult?" ~"Yes,
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