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2002 11| rather as friends than as persecutors, and quietly submitted to
2003 1 | thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two
2004 28| tidings of Rosa or of Jacob, persuaded himself that all that had
2005 5 | in short, with everything pertaining to the pursuits of a tulip-monomaniac! ~
2006 19| Alas!" she muttered, when perusing again this document, which
2007 6 | when, after five years, its petals at last reveal the hidden
2008 22| address, -- ~"To Mynheer Peter van Systens, Burgomaster,
2009 13| was not able to admit the petitioner, who then addressed himself
2010 3 | demand of these furibund petitioners a very queer reception." ~
2011 7 | knees, was examining his pets, the door of the dry-room
2012 26| brocade headdress and red petticoat. ~At the noise of their
2013 1 | path of murder. ~And every phase of his speech, eagerly listened
2014 9 | instead by those sublime philosophers who lay it down as an axiom
2015 31| multitude, which with true philosophic spirit, waits until the
2016 29| right," replied the clerk, philosophically putting up his paper and
2017 11| that this young man, so phlegmatic in appearance, must in reality
2018 19| if not of her moral and physical qualities. ~Cornelius was
2019 3 | that time, a subject for physiognomical observations which at the
2020 3 | And indeed the sallow physiognomy, the thin and sickly body,
2021 28| kill myself, I should be picked up maimed and crippled;
2022 7 | said Cornelius, eagerly picking up his precious bulbs, "
2023 31| quenched their thirst with pickled cucumbers; -- no, so far
2024 5 | tulip-grower. ~Boxtel at once pictured to himself this learned
2025 23| interest his zeal as a jailer, picturing to him in the blackest colours
2026 6 | was pitch-dark; but the piercing cries of the cats told the
2027 6 | cupboards, boxes, and ticketed pigeon-holes, which could easily be surveyed
2028 4 | he stabbed him with his pike in the face, and the blood
2029 6 | completely disordered, like the pikes of a battalion in the midst
2030 28| Ah, you sorcerer! I'll pinch you worse," roared Gryphus. ~"
2031 2 | executioners have indeed pinched me badly enough, but my
2032 16| heat and the ashes of my pipe, and lastly, we, or rather
2033 3 | conqueror and that of the pirate?" said the ancients. The
2034 3 | and at last reached such a pitch that the old building shook
2035 6 | see anything, as it was pitch-dark; but the piercing cries
2036 19| the fourth day. ~It was pitiful to see Cornelius, dumb with
2037 22| Thou merciful God, Thou pitying Father everlasting! But
2038 26| Go before me, and call me plain Mynheer." ~The two then
2039 15| execution. She uttered a plaintive sob, closed her fine eyes,
2040 1 | the diabolical stratagems planned beforehand to smooth for
2041 1 | constant obstacle to their plans, they changed their tactics,
2042 5 | he wrote a treatise, with plates drawn by his own hands;
2043 3 | companion as the fingers of a player on the keys of a harpsichord,
2044 21| she had no idea that these playful little lovers' tricks were
2045 17| pretext for now, when he could plead the same reason, as you
2046 5 | fond of everything that pleases the eye. He studied Nature
2047 26| society if its endeavours are pleasing to your Highness!" ~"Have
2048 16| least. So you see we have plenty of time before us. Only
2049 3 | we shall be in a very sad plight." ~"I have some advice to
2050 11| intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De Witt
2051 27| political intrigues, they now plotted together for my ruin. On
2052 8 | eagerness of a tiger, to plunge his hand into the soft ground. ~
2053 21| They searched not only the pockets of Cornelius, but even his
2054 12| publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine, had granted
2055 19| her heart like drops of poison, she did not dream, but
2056 9 | down as an axiom of high policy, "It is the dead only who
2057 7 | Spennen," answered Cornelius, politely, to his judge, "and you
2058 31| and Amsterdam, and all the politicians and selfish worldlings at
2059 31| either of the triumph of Pompey or of Caesar; neither of
2060 1 | effect by the aid of the poniard. ~How rarely does it happen
2061 2 | burghers, "we should have a pop at you, too." ~"Of course
2062 5 | foliage of a curtain of poplar trees, the whole habitation
2063 31| spreading elms, graceful poplars, and, more than all, upon
2064 11| Tarquin the Elder, who grew poppies at Gabii, and the Great
2065 2 | our lives and regain our popularity." ~"But what have you done
2066 7 | town and the sailors of the port should come and tear out
2067 3 | talking from the window of the porter's lodge with a dragoon,
2068 25| you draw Master Boxtel's portrait feature by feature." ~"And
2069 5 | time when the Dutch and the Portuguese, rivalling each other in
2070 5 | possessed of the spirit of Porus, who, on being conquered
2071 24| travel full speed without any possibility of injury to the tulip. ~
2072 24| could not bear travelling post-haste. ~But Boxtel, fearing that
2073 8 | want of authenticity, and posted his letter. ~Never did a
2074 32| soldier who was acting as postilion. ~"Oh, thank you, Sir, for
2075 5 | the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with everything
2076 9 | he should be ordered to pounce upon him. ~The young girl,
2077 29| concentrated. He then began to pour forth such a torrent of
2078 5 | success that his hands dropped powerless, his knees trembled, and
2079 28| mad. ~He then felt his own powerlessness. He asked himself whether
2080 6 | idea without believing it practicable, but such is the power of
2081 29| protocol of the violence practiced by the prisoner against
2082 11| worshipped Him in His works, and praised Him in His decrees. I am
2083 22| chance. Ah!" ~The prisoner's prayer ended in a sigh of ecstasy;
2084 7 | very moment the soldiers, preceded by a magistrate, entered
2085 3 | ferocious triumph rife in the precincts of the prison simultaneously
2086 15| alone. ~Rosa had fled so precipitately, that she completely forgot
2087 1 | troopers obeyed orders with a precision which immediately caused
2088 26| French; the flower which I prefer to all others is, of course,
2089 16| would have appeared to him preferable to any other habitation
2090 19| Rosa understood Cornelius's preference of the tulip to herself,
2091 17| it was after all only a prelude to greater anxieties. ~The
2092 29| murder, for a long time premeditated, with open rebellion. ~Whilst
2093 6 | offend God." ~From that premise the school of tulip-fanciers,
2094 11| quietly submitted to all those preparations which these men were obliged
2095 10| acting up to the doctor's prescription, Rosa, after having satisfied
2096 5 | according to the most approved prescriptions, and given to his hotbeds
2097 14| of the Governor; he will presently come up." ~"The instructions
2098 29| whenever an opportunity presents itself. In truth, my friend,
2099 7 | placed it in one of the presses, supposed to contain papers
2100 1 | Stadtholder. But God laughs at the presumption of man, who wants to raise
2101 6 | there was at his very door a pretender whose throne he had usurped. ~
2102 27| a young damsel who also pretends to have found it." ~Boxtel,
2103 14| said, "you make no great pretensions, Mynheer Cornelius." ~Cornelius
2104 15| set your arm, or with the price that I asked you?" said
2105 31| pleasant city, which justly prides itself on being one of the
2106 4 | John and Cornelius, two princes as noble as he in the eyes
2107 1 | flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people
2108 12| Seven Provinces had seven prisons, one for each, and that
2109 8 | all the drawers, even that privileged one where the parcel which
2110 13| administered in better style by any prize-fighter on the other side of the
2111 31| worship. ~Haarlem offered prizes for tulip-growing; and this
2112 21| abridged the term of his probation. ~"She? Well, my daughter,
2113 31| loud and audible tone, will proclaim him to be the discoverer
2114 24| not arrive early enough, procured at Delft a box, lined all
2115 33| Haarlem. ~"The history of its production, and the name of its grower,
2116 7 | old, interdicted to the profane uninitiated. ~Never had
2117 3 | hand which John de Witt proffered to her, and kissed it with
2118 10| never entered his mind of profiting by this accident; he had
2119 9 | blooming face, surrounded by a profusion of rich wavy golden locks,
2120 33| conditions required by the programme of the Horticultural Society
2121 7 | Society of Haarlem. He had progressed from hazel-nut shade to
2122 19| she did not despair of progressing quickly enough to write,
2123 6 | the owner himself every progressive development of the flower,
2124 19| was still a luminous and prominent object in his mind; but
2125 7 | melancholy about them which promises to produce a flower of the
2126 25| entirely at her disposal, promising to keep pace with the horse
2127 4 | people must certainly be prompted by a most violent indignation,"
2128 33| black tulip belongs." ~In pronouncing these words, the Prince,
2129 14| league distant from Leyden, properly speaking a kind of large
2130 16| that I may judge of its properties in a dry and in a moist
2131 5 | jealous foreboding, became the prophet of his own misfortune. And,
2132 21| alone; Cornelius tried to propitiate him, but Gryphus growled,
2133 19| operation. The weather was propitious; the air, though still damp,
2134 16| swelled to the gigantic proportions of a criminal of the first
2135 13| Thus to the very first proposals which Boxtel made to Gryphus
2136 1 | without licentiousness, and prosperity without the waste of superfluity;
2137 22| Well, all is going on prosperously. This night, without any
2138 19| grief, and pale from utter prostration, stretch out his head through
2139 25| serve her as a guide and a protector. ~And in fact she had not
2140 11| Louvois. And lastly, I vow and protest that I do not understand
2141 16| first buds of the leaves protruding. And yours Rosa?" ~"Oh,
2142 19| merchant-bourgeoisie, who were prouder of their richly emblazoned
2143 11| politics and at tulips, which proves him to belong to the class
2144 1 | that reason, when such a providential concurrence of circumstances
2145 31| superiority to all other provincial cities in the number and
2146 29| circumstances which had provoked and might justify his offence,
2147 3 | and sickly body, and the prowling ways of the stranger, were
2148 12| generosity to the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet,
2149 13| pardon of the Stadtholder publicly read out, -- then Boxtel
2150 28| and almost irresistible pugnacity. Well, I shall get at the
2151 6 | to get off, they began to pull to and fro, and to wheel
2152 17| a contrivance, a sort of pulley, by means of which he was
2153 33| raised him, and examined his pulse and his heart, he was quite
2154 13| mounted on the stone of the pump the better to see and be
2155 27| commit a crime. I will not punish you; but the real evil-doer
2156 16| with an angry countenance; punishing him for what he called his
2157 31| pleasure of admiring the very purest ideal of tulips in full
2158 33| queen of excellence and purity. And yet, the more he ascertained
2159 24| our love? Rosa, we must pursue, we must overtake him!" ~"
2160 32| which the scene occurred; it pursued its way slowly, on account
2161 1 | silence of the dragoons to pusillanimity, and advanced one step towards
2162 28| of doing something that puts you in a rage. ~Gryphus
2163 27| returned to his inn, rather puzzled and uneasy, tormented by
2164 19| of her moral and physical qualities. ~Cornelius was a scholar,
2165 16| him, handful by handful, a quantity of soil from that part of
2166 21| greatest or most beautiful queens whom the world has seen. ~
2167 3 | furibund petitioners a very queer reception." ~The nervous
2168 30| would talk without being questioned. ~That obliging person would
2169 31| moment. ~Now and then Boxtel quickened his step to rub elbows for
2170 5 | and that this flower grew quicker, and had a better colouring,
2171 23| bulb, that is to say, the quintessence of all the hopes of the
2172 3 | will order Tilly's horse to quit their post?" ~"Why not?"
2173 9 | taking up his cresset, he quitted the cell. ~ Thus left
2174 3 | reception." ~The nervous quiver of his hand, which moved
2175 29| white with rage, and with quivering lips, as his brain began
2176 11| Conde have been felicitously quoted as examples." ~The upshot
2177 31| violent contrast. ~This hero, radiant with rapturous joy, who
2178 8 | that caused the fever which raged in the heart of Isaac Boxtel. ~
2179 28| with fright, but he soon rallied, and said, putting his hand
2180 2 | Captain Tilly, who served as a rampart to them. This noise, which
2181 26| time that this sweet voice rang in his ears. ~An officer
2182 16| astonishment what a vast range of subjects a conversation
2183 13| advanced to the very foremost rank, unguibus et rostro, --
2184 31| This hero, radiant with rapturous joy, who had the distinguished
2185 5 | mortal. ~This happy mortal, rara avis, was Dr. van Baerle,
2186 11| contemplation of one of the rarest of his bulbs, John de Witt'
2187 29| fortress of Loewestein. And the rascal talked to me of twelve hours!" ~"
2188 1 | brother John, who is as rascally a traitor as himself, will
2189 16| than even the cat or the rat." ~"What animal?" ~"Man.
2190 28| and the most miserable rations one can imagine. But that'
2191 24| prisoner began really to rave. ~"Well, then, yes," said
2192 2 | pencil squeezed from the raw flesh. ~A cold sweat stood
2193 31| the old town of Haarlem re-echo with their tremendous cheers. ~ ~
2194 1 | the Perpetual Edict, and re-establishing the office of Stadtholder
2195 32| Notwithstanding the little readiness which his companion had
2196 12| beautiful dream will begin to be realised." ~Only there was still
2197 5 | hundred sailors; when he realized that the result of all this
2198 20| everything changes in the realm of nature; the flowers of
2199 17| robbed of her young by the reaper. ~In fact, Gryphus was beginning
2200 4 | shock, occasioned by the rearing of the horses. The whole
2201 11| this deposit was not to be reasonably entertained, as he could
2202 11| The upshot of all these reasonings was, that his Highness the
2203 3 | He evidently had his good reasons for not making himself known,
2204 26| Horticultural Society. ~Rosa, reassured by this sort of encouragement
2205 15| the presence of Rosa had reawakened in his heart. ~He waited
2206 17| here, you see, you are rebelling." ~"Leave me my tulip,"
2207 20| openings of the grating for the receding hand of Rosa, he said, -- ~"
2208 3 | petitioners a very queer reception." ~The nervous quiver of
2209 11| maid, had slipped into the recess of the door, with a handkerchief
2210 30| calculated to stir up in the recesses of his heart the clemency
2211 29| attention to this delightful recital, and then said, -- ~"Ah!
2212 1 | stretched on the rack, he recited with a firm voice, and scanning
2213 14| and when Boxtel's servant reclaimed them with culinary intentions,
2214 23| one else could put in a reclamation. ~Should any one then reclaim
2215 26| walk ahead, but, suddenly recollecting himself he said -- ~"Go
2216 27| dangerous prisoner, and recommended by the Prince to the especial
2217 1 | He too received a noble recompense for his devotedness to the
2218 33| was hard for him to become reconciled to his son-in-law. He had
2219 6 | tulip-growers of Europe, he had recourse to stratagem, and, to gratify
2220 9 | stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of
2221 6 | gladly would Van Baerle have redeemed that precious sap with his
2222 6 | planting and cross-breeding to reduce the tulips which he had
2223 2 | prevented the defeats of Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg;
2224 11| occupies my mind, however has reference to the glory of the Almighty,
2225 31| unlettered and unrefined, to the refinement and culture of its illustrious
2226 6 | placed between the endless reflections of two water-mirrors those
2227 5 | man who likes to use his reflective powers even while his fellow
2228 1 | they generally used French refugees for the mouthpiece of their
2229 13| might be disappointed, and refuse to pay on going out. ~Boxtel
2230 10| quick; there, my father is regaining his breath, one minute more,
2231 28| starving me to advantage, and regale myself with fish." ~Gryphus
2232 31| what had theretofore been regarded as impossible, -- a completely
2233 8 | yet, on looking over the register of seeds and bulbs, which
2234 29| jailer's lodge, where he was registered as leaving Loewestein, then
2235 29| which led to the Esplanade, regretting that he had not asked the
2236 2 | they would send us some reinforcement." ~In the meanwhile, John
2237 4 | who, trying to seize the reins of the horses, had been
2238 14| and, instead of having to relate the series of exciting events
2239 11| nationality and in their secret relations with their French enemy. ~
2240 28| that his vigilance would relax, even for one moment. Moreover,
2241 31| to time relieved by fresh relays, -- even as the bearers
2242 14| some eggs from them, he released the female, which, leaving
2243 4 | And the young Prince, the relentless rival of the Great King,
2244 11| and have preserved it as a relic. To-day I brought it to
2245 10| else but of administering relief to the sufferer, however
2246 22| overflowed with gratitude and religious fervour. ~"Oh Thou art always
2247 28| excellent bread, which I relish more than the best cake;
2248 11| during which the prisoner was remanded to his cell. ~There the
2249 17| flowing day passed without any remarkable incident. Gryphus made his
2250 13| to the worthy spectators remarks such as the following: -- ~"
2251 9 | fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs
2252 24| great, but it may perhaps be remedied. Rosa, we know the thief!" ~"
2253 20| there might not be some remedy to restore you to health." ~"
2254 25| or with the resources for remedying it. ~She went to her room,
2255 17| his trembling fingers, the remnants of that bulb on which he
2256 13| which was to be so well remunerated, had directed the tempter
2257 1 | into exile, where he will renew his intrigues with France,
2258 23| his word, being that of a renowned tulip-grower, would any
2259 8 | a house which was being repaired, and against which a very
2260 5 | gave directions for some repairs, which he wished to have
2261 1 | signature, was fuming at the repeal of the Perpetual Edict --
2262 1 | inspired by Louis XIV., in repealing the Perpetual Edict, and
2263 18| yes! but too late." ~"This repentance is not of himself." ~"And
2264 18| deceive me, perhaps." ~"No, he repents." ~"Ah yes! but too late." ~"
2265 20| imagine that water could replace the earth?" ~"You may make
2266 3 | and, without making any reply, followed in the steps of
2267 20| the sort." ~Rosa, without replying to this excuse of the prisoner,
2268 5 | rich in his well-earned repose, his twenty-eight years,
2269 6 | intended for white, the pure representation of the limpid element. ~
2270 6 | and those of Dort were now represented by Cornelius van Baerle,
2271 25| chalice, and his two limp arms representing the double leaf of the tulip;
2272 19| his hand on his heart, to repress as it were its violent palpitation,
2273 29| memory is perpetuated." ~Repressing his melancholy thoughts,
2274 13| saved from death. ~This reprieve suggested to the worthy
2275 5 | sort of fool who tried to reproduce and disfigure on canvas
2276 5 | like his somewhat austere republicanism, but they were proud of
2277 11| by the Haarlem Society, requesting that she may be paid the
2278 10| sleeve. ~"Is this what you require, sir?" asked Rosa. ~"Yes,
2279 5 | at hand; in short, every requirement to insure not only success
2280 3 | state, to guard against a rescue or a revolt. ~The people
2281 25| double leaf of the tulip; the resemblance was rendered complete by
2282 25| was a spare little man, resembling the stem of a flower, his
2283 31| pavement of the Buytenhof, reserving the right at a future day
2284 5 | but his family had been resident there for centuries. ~Cornelius,
2285 9 | and at last submitted with resignation to all the sufferings which
2286 3 | which, however, offered no resistance to the sovereign people --
2287 29| followed the officer with a resolute heart, and carrying his
2288 30| gallop of a horse was heard resounding in the vaulted archway. ~"
2289 11| condition of her marrying a respectable young man of about my age,
2290 13| disappointed was a certain respectably dressed burgher, who from
2291 31| The people, even among the respected republicans of the Seven
2292 11| his pretended indifference respecting this deposit was not to
2293 31| nor in the young dandies, resplendent in their Sunday clothes,
2294 3 | any resolution on my own responsibility." ~"The order! we want the
2295 3 | vulture, -- serenity or restlessness. ~And indeed the sallow
2296 29| to find it? ~In truth, to restrain his tears at such a crisis
2297 4 | very forbidding manner, restrained the glance of gloomy malice
2298 1 | taking with him into the retirement of private life the hatred
2299 3 | the young man quietly retorted. ~"Because doing so would
2300 4 | locked, they were obliged to retrace their steps." ~"Gate! gate!"
2301 28| soul,~As thither our soul returns, --~Our soul, that is to
2302 27| harboured a secret without revealing it to me? No, no, your Highness,
2303 11| the Bible, and kissed it reverently. ~"With what shall I write?"
2304 20| the different swains in review who send them to me, I am
2305 11| mischievous, because it revives the contest which it is
2306 3 | order, as long as it is not revoked, enjoins them to stop before
2307 3 | guard against a rescue or a revolt. ~The people rushed into
2308 9 | go into exile, or what in revolutionary times is meant instead by
2309 28| letter. ~Then Cornelius revolved in his mind all those stratagems
2310 2 | Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg; the Rhine would not have
2311 31| Systens, dressed in his richest habiliments. ~The worthy
2312 19| who were prouder of their richly emblazoned shop signs than
2313 19| think we shall soon get rid of our scholar." ~Rosa was
2314 5 | seen the "Saint Michael," riddled and shattered by the Dutch
2315 29| the slopes of a mountain ridge. ~A protocol of the violence
2316 1 | the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts' content,
2317 16| driving in your own coach, riding your own horse, will you
2318 3 | hatred and ferocious triumph rife in the precincts of the
2319 7 | afraid lest on the day of a riot the shopkeepers of the town
2320 1 | keeping order, gave to the rioters the example of seditious
2321 1 | not only the disorderly riotous mass of the populace, but
2322 4 | hands; for this fellow had ripped open Cornelius and disembowelled
2323 4 | brains. John de Witt fell to rise no more. ~On this, every
2324 2 | the expiring flame which rises from the half-extinguished
2325 4 | head from the window, and risking all for gaining all; "my
2326 5 | Dutch and the Portuguese, rivalling each other in this branch
2327 25| many canals, rivers, and rivulets intersecting the country,
2328 4 | proceed, and its stream moved roaring and rapid, as if lashed
2329 8 | the hazel-nut, and the roasted-coffee coloured tulip; but of the
2330 8 | party at the Hague were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh
2331 17| mean and spiteful fellow to rob a poor prisoner of his only
2332 13| value of the object of the robbery, which was to be so well
2333 31| years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed at the festival
2334 21| straight?" ~"Straight as a rocket," said Rosa. ~"How high?" ~"
2335 2 | surf dashing against the rocks, now reached the ears of
2336 1 | this moment, Count Tilly rode forth towards them single-handed,
2337 1 | brothers De Witt, those Romans of Holland, spurning to
2338 28| file would get dull, the rope would break, or my wings
2339 13| foremost rank, unguibus et rostro, -- that is to say, coaxing
2340 22| fresh cheek, your soft, rosy cheek. Oh, Rosa, give it
2341 6 | Boxtel allowed his bulbs to rot in the pits, his seedlings
2342 20| approached the border by a long round-about; at last, having reached
2343 17| come herself, and use no roundabout ways. She would at once
2344 5 | by the shortest possible routes through the windings of
2345 28| have at least a nice little row. ~Gryphus, therefore, on
2346 6 | perceived the symmetrical rows of his tulips to be completely
2347 6 | noble, that princely, that royal bed, which contained not
2348 31| Boxtel quickened his step to rub elbows for a moment with
2349 6 | perhaps Shakespeare and Rubens, have equalled in point
2350 33| tulips, the old man made the rudest keeper of flowers in the
2351 20| and, quite abashed and rueful, walked back to the door,
2352 24| alone," said Cornelius, ruefully. ~"One minute only, to instruct
2353 29| in the madman's hand, the ruffian might fling it at him, Cornelius
2354 1 | by his base mind and his ruffianly imagination, the attempts
2355 26| blunder; it may be I have ruined Cornelius, the tulip, and
2356 27| she formed the plan of ruining me by appropriating to herself
2357 7 | thrill of excitement when the rumour spreads to the four quarters
2358 7 | bell of his cabinet was rung much more violently than
2359 7 | confounded Craeke! thus to rush into my dry-room; let us
2360 5 | edged with willows and rushes, and abounding in luxurious
2361 15| staircase the light step and the rustle of the flowing dress of
2362 16| this unfortunate bulb as sacrificed to my selfishness. However,
2363 2 | love my country, and what sacrifices I have offered to make for
2364 4 | stirrup, vaulted into the saddle of the led horse, and, setting
2365 11| rather of surprise than sadness. ~After the sentence was
2366 5 | hundred and thirty-nine sail, with which the famous admiral
2367 29| Horace bestows upon the sailor who first visited the terrifying
2368 22| nor by stratagem, but as Saint-Preux's was to meet the lips of
2369 3 | triumph. They immediately sallied forth, with lowered arms
2370 1 | horsemen, indeed, exercised a salutary check on these civic warriors;
2371 21| after the first exchange of salutations, she retired a step, looking
2372 33| to the foot of the throne saluting alternately the Prince and
2373 6 | of mankind whose hopes of salvation were not centred upon the
2374 7 | this pantheon, this sanctum sanctorum of the tulip-fancier, was,
2375 8 | dry-room. ~On reaching this sanctuary of the florist he stopped,
2376 7 | dry-room, this pantheon, this sanctum sanctorum of the tulip-fancier,
2377 16| soil slightly mixed with sand, rather moist than dry without
2378 5 | sinking of the "Earl of Sandwich," and the death by fire
2379 3 | hideously distorted with satanic glee: this man was the surgeon
2380 8 | a result which would satisfy not only his vengeance,
2381 7 | have lost one moment in satisfying his curiosity and feasting
2382 6 | the modest and inoffensive savant. ~Engaging, heart and soul,
2383 18| show of anger sometimes saves an answer. I shrugged my
2384 14| first lived on his little savings, and then on his master'
2385 4 | pale. ~"Oh, Monseigneur, he says a thing which would be very
2386 15| moment the two pigeons, scared by the sight and especially
2387 1 | of enemies, and the fresh scars of wounds inflicted by assassins,
2388 6 | earth which his neighbour scattered upon his cherished bulbs. ~
2389 32| principal part." ~"Oh, the sweet scents! oh, the beautiful colours!"
2390 2 | Tromp past the shoals of the Scheldt to Antwerp." ~"With the
2391 23| theft. ~This was a deep-laid scheme, and quite worthy of its
2392 6 | the ban, and condemn as schismatics and heretics and deserving
2393 6 | the most exclusive of all schools, worked out the following
2394 18| only knew how his friend scolded him!" ~"Ah, Master Jacob;
2395 2 | asked, with a look on the scorched and bruised hands of the
2396 31| heavy sea air, and their scorching heat. ~On this account all
2397 20| yourself comfortable on that score," said Rosa, smiling; "your
2398 4 | came the most dastardly scoundrels of all, who not having dared
2399 5 | tidy, even more cleanly scoured and more carefully waxed
2400 21| Gryphus looked at him with a scowl. ~"And how is the dog, and
2401 9 | cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at
2402 20| Van Baerle heard some one scratch at the grated little window,
2403 24| Cornelius, Cornelius!" she screamed, gasping for breath. ~"Good
2404 33| loved, a condition which was scrupulously fulfilled, although, or
2405 30| Rosa, and fixing on her his scrutinising, and at the same time impenetrable
2406 12| parchment, sealed with a huge seal of red wax. ~And the same
2407 7 | The magistrate broke the seals, tore off the envelope,
2408 27| hesitated; the fixed and searching glance of the proud eye
2409 19| But poor Rosa, in her secluded chamber, could not have
2410 28| worse torments than those of seclusion and separation? Did this
2411 23| grew in the most profound secrecy, and as, moreover, his word,
2412 7 | seditious papers which you secrete in your house." ~"The seditious
2413 8 | Van Baerle so carefully secreting the parcel in the drawer
2414 13| Buytenhof at daybreak, to secure a better place; but he,
2415 31| were filled with war and sedition, -- Haarlem, having enjoyed
2416 6 | the first year, its pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the
2417 14| Loewestein, and Rotterdam, seeking variety, doubtless, in the
2418 4 | companions, who, trying to seize the reins of the horses,
2419 26| just as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles by the hair at
2420 1 | overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens that he does not
2421 5 | took it into his head to select for himself, from all the
2422 29| heroic self-possession, and selecting the exact spot for every
2423 18| feel as if part of my own self had been paralyzed." ~"Now
2424 29| But, sir, it was only in self-defence." ~"Never mind," said the
2425 28| in a manner painful to my self-respect, or to my love, or even
2426 16| bulb as sacrificed to my selfishness. However, the sun sometimes
2427 4 | then went about the town selling small slices of the bodies
2428 21| have preferred her to Queen Semiramis, to Queen Cleopatra, to
2429 22| he said, "here is Heaven sending a soul to my flower." ~And
2430 31| fail to make as much of a sensation as the Stadtholder himself. ~
2431 12| Van Baerle began to be sensible to what was going on around
2432 1 | charge; at the same time sentencing Cornelius to be deposed
2433 28| exasperated by the calm and sententious tone of Cornelius, brandished
2434 2 | Baerle's mind, and every sentiment in his heart? You ask whether
2435 28| treble strength, and the sentinels ten times more watchful?
2436 21| understand that you must not separate from it for an instant." ~"
2437 31| On this account all the serene souls who loved the earth
2438 29| number, at a sign from a sergeant, very cleverly lodged a
2439 14| of having to relate the series of exciting events which
2440 13| of the hyena, and of the serpent glistened in his eyes, and
2441 13| us, wears a head-dress of serpents. ~ ~
2442 2 | he now excelled, not in services rendered to the country,
2443 4 | lose the opportunity of serving the Grand Pensionary in
2444 25| words seemed to be an "Open Sesame," for she soon found herself
2445 25| Swan Inn, and you can then settle matters with him; as for
2446 29| Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts With Gryphus. ~
2447 1 | lovely young girl, of about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in
2448 6 | took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered
2449 4 | anything; but they felt a severe shock, occasioned by the
2450 1 | stab him, in which he was severely although not mortally wounded. ~
2451 12| expression of Madame de Sevigne, who wrote about the same
2452 31| upon her pleasant walks, shaded by the lovely arches of
2453 3 | After this, fluctuating shadows in tumultuous confusion
2454 11| to him a book, bound in shagreen, which bore the initials
2455 24| tenfold by his rage, began to shake the door with a great noise,
2456 7 | dry-room was so violently shaken, and opened in such a brusque
2457 6 | Creator, except perhaps Shakespeare and Rubens, have equalled
2458 23| keeping, and who, as the sham Jacob had it, was in league
2459 9 | On it were suspended two shapeless trunks, which indeed were
2460 16| have seen, was far from sharing the kindly feeling of his
2461 1 | they hoped to manage like a sharp-edged and at the same time crushing
2462 5 | Saint Michael," riddled and shattered by the Dutch broadside,
2463 9 | beam of light which morning sheds on the earth as a white
2464 5 | vegetation, whereon flocks of fat sheep browsed in peaceful sleepiness.
2465 21| They then searched the sheets, the mattress, and the straw
2466 26| took a book down from the shelf, and made Van Systens a
2467 6 | in the midst of which a shell has fallen. ~He ran up to
2468 7 | in winter. They need the shelter of the house, the soft bed
2469 17| old man, "we know well the shifts of prisoners." ~"But I vow
2470 5 | destruction -- after twenty ships had been blown to pieces,
2471 10| coat, and to tuck up his shirt sleeve. ~"Is this what you
2472 29| that Cornelius felt almost shocked. ~All at once, Gryphus,
2473 17| to atoms under his heavy shoe. ~Van Baerle saw the work
2474 7 | on the day of a riot the shopkeepers of the town and the sailors
2475 31| and the splendour of their shops and markets, Haarlem's claims
2476 12| who left as free men. ~The shorter the way from the door of
2477 5 | skilful guidance by the shortest possible routes through
2478 2 | his own beloved militia, shouted most lustily, -- ~"Hurrah
2479 1 | example of seditious cries, shouting, -- ~"Hurrah for Orange!
2480 11| public tranquillity, and shows a certain, or rather a complete,
2481 8 | the chance, he at first shrank with horror from the idea
2482 4 | fallen hero, and tear off a shred from his garments. ~And
2483 8 | were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh torn from the corpses
2484 2 | hand of his brother, who shuddered at the touch of his linen
2485 5 | fellow citizens by completely shunning the pursuit of politics,
2486 3 | physiognomy, the thin and sickly body, and the prowling ways
2487 33| their way through the crowd, sidled up to the black tulip, towards
2488 6 | at work. ~He beheld him sifting his seeds, and soaking them
2489 9 | by the coarse brush of a sign-painter: -- ~"Here are hanging the
2490 27| That of the Stadtholder signified, "Be quiet, and wait." ~
2491 26| decided tone, -- ~"This cannot signify anything to the members
2492 8 | Boxtel contented himself with signifying his approval of the zeal
2493 3 | doing so would simply be signing the death warrant of Cornelius
2494 27| admired the flower, and silently resumed his seat in the
2495 22| written it with such beautiful simplicity. You will give to the committee
2496 11| magistracy of the Hague if they simplified for him the government of
2497 16| one, but rather a sort of sinecure, given after a long period
2498 5 | admiral set out to contend singlehanded against the combined forces
2499 18| more." ~Rosa felt her heart sink within her, and her eyes
2500 30| the tulip, like two orphan sisters, had been left by Prince
2501 14| it was for eight slivers (sixpence English) a day; and, after
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