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Chapter
2502 14| of Van Baerle. ~On the sixteenth day, at last, she came back
2503 11| instrument of steel, which in sixty minutes will put an end
2504 20| stone pot, just about the size of the jug in which you
2505 9 | were no more than bleeding skeletons. ~The good people of the
2506 12| to be, was shining in the skies; and the same grated window
2507 16| jug, which Cornelius had skilfully broken, did service as a
2508 10| it flat, and with perfect skill set the bone, adjusted the
2509 4 | iron bar which broke his skull. He rose once more, but
2510 4 | directions to the coachman to slacken his pace, in order not to
2511 6 | above the corpses of their slain companions. This was enough
2512 9 | from the cell, violently slamming the door, and noisily drawing
2513 4 | strike him with blows of the sledge-hammer, or stab him with a knife
2514 6 | the under gardeners should sleep in the garden in a sentry-box
2515 5 | sheep browsed in peaceful sleepiness. Craeke from afar off recognised
2516 16| child?" ~"The window of my sleeping-room overlooks it." ~"Well, on
2517 10| and to tuck up his shirt sleeve. ~"Is this what you require,
2518 20| The dark beauty with a slender waist, small feet, and a
2519 4 | about the town selling small slices of the bodies of John and
2520 16| trees and walls, in a soil slightly mixed with sand, rather
2521 14| such as it was for eight slivers (sixpence English) a day;
2522 5 | of the windmills, on the slope of the hill, the red and
2523 29| like the hills dotting the slopes of a mountain ridge. ~A
2524 4 | The young man with his hat slouched over his eyes, still leaning
2525 12| to M. de Thou, and other slovenly executed people, that the
2526 26| with a certain aristocratic slowness, ascended the white stone
2527 9 | been roused from her first slumber by the unexpected arrival
2528 30| heart the clemency which was slumbering there. ~"Ah, I understand
2529 15| prisoner, and, growling, smelled about his legs just as though
2530 31| young peasants, gnawing smoked eels as if they were sticks
2531 14| were never absent, made a snare for catching the pigeons,
2532 13| jailer had not only the snarling fierceness, but likewise
2533 20| coming back, after which he sneaked forth from his hiding-place,
2534 9 | shaking his heavy chain, and sniffing all round Cornelius in order
2535 32| stop. ~In an instant his snorting steeds stood still, at a
2536 6 | him sifting his seeds, and soaking them in liquids which were
2537 11| it down for you." ~Rosa sobbed afresh, and handed to him
2538 24| mercy." ~"Alas!" cried Rosa, sobbing, "can I open the door for
2539 15| altogether different. They keep sober, spend nothing, and have
2540 19| judicious view of her own social position, if not of her
2541 31| spring, marched the learned societies of the town, the magistrates,
2542 2 | the noble blood which had soiled the leaf, and, after having
2543 1 | dockyards, which they have sold to Louis XIV." ~"Well, then,
2544 32| Last Request~ At this solemn moment, and whilst the cheers
2545 31| of that notable body to solemnise the auspicious event. ~And
2546 32| for they will not see the solemnity which they have come to
2547 27| came to me at Leyden to solicit for the transfer of your
2548 26| Otherwise, you must have solicited the transfer of your father,
2549 7 | Baerle continued in his soliloquy, "and when tranquillity
2550 8 | silence of the night; one solitary light, that of the housekeeper,
2551 17| her room, repeated in her solitude the reading lessons, and
2552 26| aught she knew, might be somebody or nobody. ~The humble stranger
2553 33| become reconciled to his son-in-law. He had not yet forgotten
2554 8 | himself with the following sophism: -- ~"Cornelius de Witt
2555 2 | the forehead, and put his sore hands gently back on the
2556 13| Orangemen, who, like him, were sorely vexed at the turn which
2557 29| to have given it him very soundly." ~"But, sir, it was only
2558 5 | the noonday heat; aspect south-southwest; water in abundant supply,
2559 22| moment, a star blazed in the southern sky, and shot through the
2560 3 | offered no resistance to the sovereign people -- to listening to
2561 1 | the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid
2562 20| border, in which I dug with a spade, as if I was going to put
2563 2 | parcel nor burn it without a special command to do so." ~"But
2564 8 | Cornelius van Baerle." ~Specious as this mode of reasoning
2565 32| you seen it? It must have specks, it must be imperfect, it
2566 31| She would have been a spectre spoiling the joy of the
2567 6 | of it in the light of a speculation. Van Baerle, as soon as
2568 4 | rival of the Great King, sped away upon his fiery steed, --
2569 19| her by Cornelius, whose speeches she treasured in her heart,
2570 17| syllables, which she was to spell for Cornelius, who with
2571 13| Stadtholder, mixing with it a spice of abuse against the brothers
2572 17| before killed Pelisson's spider. ~The idea of striking down
2573 33| which the envious Isaac had spied into the garden; for the
2574 24| was re-echoing through the spiral staircase. ~Rosa, in her
2575 3 | full speed of a pair of spirited Flemish horses. Rosa followed
2576 28| they wish to vent their spleen. ~The expense being once
2577 21| quiet! For shame! Do not spoil my pleasure. But tell me,
2578 31| would have been a spectre spoiling the joy of the festival
2579 3 | issuing like waters from a spout. ~At the head of the first
2580 23| formed by the first budding sprays of the wild vine and the
2581 7 | excitement when the rumour spreads to the four quarters of
2582 6 | thirst with the water he sprinkled upon them, and feasted on
2583 11| if they were beginning to sprout. ~To this again it was objected,
2584 22| How Cornelius would have spurned the offer of his liberty
2585 1 | those Romans of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies
2586 4 | the face, and the blood spurted forth. ~"My brother!" cried
2587 15| to run to the door, and squeeze the hand of Rosa, who whispered
2588 2 | fingers against the pencil squeezed from the raw flesh. ~A cold
2589 31| which he was constantly squinting, fearful of losing sight
2590 4 | you." ~And saying this he stabbed him with his pike in the
2591 5 | left his horse at a livery stable in order not to arouse suspicion,
2592 1 | appear on the political stage, and to measure himself
2593 5 | which conveyed him by easy stages to Dort, pursuing their
2594 4 | with the butt-end. John staggered and fell down at his feet,
2595 31| leaders, whose blood had stained the foul pavement of the
2596 29| were heard ascending the stair-case. ~The guards fell back to
2597 6 | He breathed through the stalks of Van Baerle's tulips,
2598 26| bad action." ~Van Systens stamped his foot with impatience;
2599 17| Let go," repeated Gryphus, stamping his foot, "let go, or I
2600 22| Heaven." ~At this moment, a star blazed in the southern sky,
2601 19| day lasted. Yet his sudden starts, his listening at the door,
2602 25| all sorts of misery, even starvation and flogging. ~Cornelius,
2603 28| Well, I shall turn your starving me to advantage, and regale
2604 4 | before the message which the States-General are sure to send to me to
2605 9 | the warrant the name and station of his prisoner, he muttered
2606 1 | indeed, stood like so many statues, under the eye of their
2607 10| after returned with two staves of a small barrel and a
2608 28| female walrus captured at Stavesen, and the only result of
2609 19| coming, but had voluntarily stayed away. Thus Rosa, being at
2610 19| more, and she is right in staying away; in her place I should
2611 23| first entertained an idea of stealing the key, but it soon occurred
2612 32| an instant his snorting steeds stood still, at a distance
2613 11| there is an instrument of steel, which in sixty minutes
2614 1 | large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas
2615 5 | adapt it to the wave of the stems of his flowers. His productions
2616 15| of Van Baerle. ~Gryphus stepped towards the window. ~It
2617 26| will do me the honour of stepping into my drawing-room, he
2618 7 | longer to put onions in his stews, for fear of pulling to
2619 28| down from the window, or in sticking wings on my shoulders to
2620 11| handkerchief to her mouth to stifle her sobs. ~Cornelius listened
2621 26| midst of a composition which stimulated his vanity, both as a burgomaster
2622 6 | in tulips was no longer a stimulus to his exertions, but a
2623 7 | fireplace, knelt down and stirred with the tip of his finger
2624 3 | he said, rising in his stirrups, and touching his lieutenant
2625 23| He followed Rosa in his stocking feet, walking on tiptoe. ~
2626 18| cried at last, with the stoicism of a Roman of old, "it would
2627 23| black; if, therefore, he stole it now, he not only might
2628 5 | morn to evening on a wooden stool, or a leathern chair, in
2629 20| given to Rosa. ~"Yes, and I stooped over the border, in which
2630 25| think he has." ~"Restless, stooping, and bowlegged?" ~"In truth,
2631 17| his bottle, tells funny stories, and moreover is very free
2632 7 | which is fraught with a storm. ~Little dreaming of the
2633 28| do his best to bring new storms on his head. ~But how should
2634 7 | congenial warmth of the stove. Van Baerle, therefore,
2635 25| whether the tulip was not stowed away in some corner where
2636 7 | respectful manner in a drawer, stowing it away so that it should
2637 30| child," he said, with that strangely commanding accent which
2638 22| with a sigh, "the eyes of strangers will see it flower to the
2639 28| of that old villain, and strangle him." ~Cornelius at these
2640 1 | downwards, in a line with the straps of his stirrup. ~This troop,
2641 5 | patience, and by dint of strenuous exertions, laid out near
2642 19| from utter prostration, stretch out his head through the
2643 7 | Craeke," said Cornelius, stretching his arm under the table
2644 7 | the double breach of the strict rule of his house. ~"Oh,
2645 5 | heat and fresh air as the strictest rules of horticulture exact. ~
2646 6 | until, after a furious strife of about a quarter of an
2647 17| stone before his window. The strings by which this was effected
2648 4 | and torn, and completely stripped the two brothers, the mob
2649 1 | Witt, therefore, had to strive against a double difficulty, --
2650 1 | according to measure, the first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem"
2651 1 | by his mother Henrietta Stuart, of Charles I. of England.
2652 5 | that pleases the eye. He studied Nature in all her aspects
2653 16| heart she could not help studying this double love of the
2654 5 | and near these brilliant stuffs, large lines set to catch
2655 13| paving-stone in his way, stumbled, lost his centre of gravity,
2656 7 | Hague." ~Cornelius, in mute stupefaction, embraced his old nurse,
2657 13| been administered in better style by any prize-fighter on
2658 16| astonishment what a vast range of subjects a conversation may comprise. ~
2659 3 | filling. ~Suddenly the noise subsided, and as suddenly again it
2660 6 | the period of Van Baerle's successes. Whilst Cornelius was weeding,
2661 9 | with resignation to all the sufferings which God might ordain for
2662 2 | No, John; it will not suffice to send a verbal message;
2663 30| said William; "it will suit you very well indeed." ~ ~
2664 1 | wounded. ~This by no means suited the views of the Orange
2665 20| guessed the truth; that suitor and amorous swain, Jacob,
2666 17| You will not always have suitors in vain; this man may become
2667 25| remaining all the while sullen, immovable, dead to every
2668 11| from prison. ~The judge summed up with the following dilemma: -- ~"
2669 30| he had just written, and summoned one of his officers, to
2670 4 | generally used at that time for summoning the servants, he sounded
2671 1 | made to corrupt him; the sums of money which were promised,
2672 21| were entering with this sunbeam into his cell, which, so
2673 5 | brothers, who had never been sundered by the least misunderstanding
2674 25| Bald?" ~"Yes." ~"With sunken eyes?" ~"I think he has." ~"
2675 16| to-morrow." ~"Take some from a sunny spot, and some from a shady,
2676 1 | to add might appear quite supererogatory; but we will, from the very
2677 1 | prosperity without the waste of superfluity; on the other hand, the
2678 4 | John -- who, with an almost superhuman effort, had reached the
2679 11| with their French enemy. ~A supplementary clause was tacked to the
2680 25| in great emergencies are supplied by the misfortune itself
2681 11| this point, since, even supposing that the paper should turn
2682 5 | consoling himself with illusory suppositions, Boxtel was not able to
2683 3 | which was waving above the surface of clenched fists and glittering
2684 13| corner of his cell, the surly jailer had only answered
2685 9 | the cynical inscription surmounting it. ~Gryphus broke out into
2686 3 | there!" cried Gryphus; "it's surprising how much sense there is
2687 27| the Prince to the especial surveillance of the jailer. ~Nothing
2688 18| murdered me; I shall not survive it." ~And certainly the
2689 9 | the gibbet. ~On it were suspended two shapeless trunks, which
2690 20| that suitor and amorous swain, Jacob, did not come on
2691 31| inoffensive as a flight of birds sweeping through the air. ~Haarlem
2692 20| the garden, and one of the sweepings of the road. I have heard
2693 7 | was carried away by the sweetest dreams. ~Suddenly the bell
2694 31| they were sticks of vanilla sweetmeat; neither is our interest
2695 29| which were beginning to swell like the hills dotting the
2696 21| like a needle, the cylinder swells at the sides, and the points
2697 25| Delft; and, thanks to the swiftness of the horse, had already
2698 28| I am expert enough as a swimmer to save both of us. Rosa, --
2699 33| Rosa, who, faint and with swimming eyes, was leaning on the
2700 4 | to open the gate, which swung creaking on its hinges. ~"
2701 11| to live must be a great Sybarite still to want anything,
2702 17| her finger the letters and syllables, which she was to spell
2703 6 | worked out the following syllogism in the same year: -- ~"To
2704 22| step light as that of a sylph, and the rustling of a gown,
2705 6 | at once he perceived the symmetrical rows of his tulips to be
2706 17| seemed too arduous, the sympathy of two loving hearts seemed
2707 7 | remarked in the streets of Dort symptoms of a tumult similar to that
2708 30| an officer called at Van Systen's house. He came from his
2709 11| looked upon as sacred as the tabernacle by the whole household of
2710 28| blood-stained doublet of William the Taciturn and the female walrus captured
2711 1 | plans, they changed their tactics, and tried to obtain by
2712 29| Loewestein. And the rascal talked to me of twelve hours!" ~"
2713 29| could not be said to be too tame; the prisoner being charged
2714 7 | Van Baerle had placed the taper. ~In this figure, Boxtel
2715 21| almost one inch long, and tapers like a needle, the cylinder
2716 22| tulip-fancier like him will not tarry one hour, not one minute,
2717 11| truth with regard to his own tastes, habits, and daily life.
2718 16| whose cultivation Rosa was taught all the mysteries of the
2719 13| of envy who, as mythology teaches us, wears a head-dress of
2720 28| are alone, I don't mind telling you." ~"Well, well, well,"
2721 5 | better colouring, with the temperate warmth of morning, than
2722 5 | horticulture exact. ~Isaac knew the temperature of his frames to the twentieth
2723 8 | clock in the afternoon, the temptation grew so strong, that Mynheer
2724 26| thousand guilders may have tempted her." ~"And so she claims
2725 13| remunerated, had directed the tempter to the executioner, as the
2726 1 | strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and, making
2727 16| is sure to flower, if you tend it according to my directions." ~"
2728 16| occupy his attention, she tendered to him through the grating
2729 15| this sudden outburst of tenderness, Rosa grew very pale, --
2730 24| whose strength was increased tenfold by his rage, began to shake
2731 31| the pictures of the two Teniers. ~It is certain that sluggish
2732 5 | retired to the island of Terceira, where he amused himself,
2733 21| accord, have abridged the term of his probation. ~"She?
2734 27| couched in the following terms: -- ~"My Dear Godson, -- ~"
2735 6 | and the "Columbin clair terni." ~The frightened cats,
2736 7 | as is asserted, was the terrestrial paradise, and which is called
2737 29| sailor who first visited the terrifying Acroceraunian shoals. ~In
2738 11| Cornelius then read to Rosa the testament that he had just made. ~
2739 23| ever distilled from the Texel to Antwerp, and he lulled
2740 | Thee
2741 6 | reader the beautiful chain of theories which go to prove that the
2742 19| so much the more unhappy therefor. ~During the whole of this
2743 31| be delivered of what had theretofore been regarded as impossible, --
2744 24| I, forsooth, in a den of thieves, -- in a cave of brigands?
2745 2 | who knows so much, and yet thinks of nothing but of flowers
2746 31| Ceylon or Java; nor in the thirsty crowds, who quenched their
2747 5 | fleet of one hundred and thirty-nine sail, with which the famous
2748 21| Cornelius was happy, as thoroughly happy as a tulip-fancier
2749 1 | popular mind the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prince
2750 19| the words of Cornelius's thoughtless speech had fallen upon her
2751 5 | of more than four hundred thousands of florins and income of
2752 28| takes up the stick will be thrashed by the stick.'" ~Gryphus,
2753 31| over to rejoicing, for a three-fold celebration was to take
2754 14| little turret a voice which thrilled through him. ~He put his
2755 21| The conspiracy seems to thrive," remarked Gryphus. ~"What
2756 6 | overflowing with gall now throbbed with triumphant joy. ~Boxtel
2757 29| table to avoid the first thrust; but as Gryphus continued,
2758 32| tulip!" replied Van Baerle, thrusting half his body out of the
2759 25| moreover, we are exceedingly ticklish as far as the honour of
2760 28| not having received any tidings of Rosa or of Jacob, persuaded
2761 5 | which -- white, trim, and tidy, even more cleanly scoured
2762 29| the stick, which he held tight under his arm, dealt the
2763 6 | they were tied together was tightly stretched across the bed;
2764 22| flattered. Good night, then, till we meet again, Mynheer Cornelius." ~"
2765 18| not altogether without a tinge of irony. ~Cornelius reflected
2766 17| transparency of the flesh tint. ~Rosa's intellect rapidly
2767 9 | of the yard a dark mass, tinted with a dingy blue by the
2768 12| full of light and glorious tints. ~Three times he felt, with
2769 31| bloom, -- Haarlem, this tiny town, full of trees and
2770 7 | down and stirred with the tip of his finger the ashes,
2771 11| the golden brocade cap, tipped with lace, such as the Frisian
2772 23| stocking feet, walking on tiptoe. ~He saw her approach the
2773 1 | thing over again. It is very tiresome." ~With this, he took his
2774 31| men the most earnest in tiring themselves, not when they
2775 22| to-day, this evening, and to-night, again I see Thee in all
2776 7 | guilders of the Haarlem prize to-the poor. And yet ---- " ~Here
2777 5 | life really is, for as to toiling from morn to evening on
2778 1 | left behind them a pretty tolerable reputation for ingratitude,
2779 5 | first word in the Cingalese tongue which was ever used to designate
2780 21| growled, showed a large tooth like a tusk, which he had
2781 16| art, formed the principal topic of the conversation; but,
2782 18| eyes were like two flaming torches, his hair stood on end,
2783 27| rather puzzled and uneasy, tormented by misgivings about that
2784 28| she to suffer even worse torments than those of seclusion
2785 29| began to pour forth such a torrent of disgusting imprecations
2786 6 | feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by
2787 6 | Boxtel, in the midst of tortures which no pen is able fully
2788 2 | myself; and whilst they were torturing me, I never thought of uttering
2789 22| gently, Rosa. Perhaps she touches with her lips its expanding
2790 5 | amongst all the Linnaeuses and Tourneforts a tulip which bore his name,
2791 31| an enthusiasm among the townsfolk, that even a Frenchman,
2792 1 | every honest citizen and townsman might be expected to share? ~"
2793 2 | explaining to the valiant townsmen, that his order from the
2794 4 | have followed his bloody track, and he was soon closed
2795 1 | very moment when they were tracking the scent of one of their
2796 6 | mortal man, following in the tracks of the Creator, except perhaps
2797 6 | the white raven of French tradition. ~Van Baerle was one of
2798 9 | block of stone, on which the traditional water-jug of the prison
2799 7 | apartments of the house, whilst a train of domestics followed their
2800 2 | his spirit, freed from the trammels of the body, were hovering
2801 33| William rose, casting a tranquil glance over the enthusiastic
2802 5 | to arouse suspicion, and tranquilly continued his journey on
2803 17| light owing to the living transparency of the flesh tint. ~Rosa'
2804 24| every trace of the theft, he transplanted the tulip, and, breaking
2805 26| prisoner who may have been transported from the Hague to Loewestein." ~"
2806 24| black tulip could not bear travelling post-haste. ~But Boxtel,
2807 9 | despairing florist had to traverse to reach that cell he heard
2808 3 | of about a dozen steps; traversed a small courtyard, which
2809 19| Cornelius, whose speeches she treasured in her heart, even when
2810 28| doors of double and even of treble strength, and the sentinels
2811 31| gathered in the beautiful tree-lined streets, determined on this
2812 31| Haarlem re-echo with their tremendous cheers. ~ ~
2813 8 | there Boxtel was only a trespasser, here he was a thief. ~However,
2814 16| cell, expecting to find him trespassing; but Cornelius had ceased
2815 21| kiss her beautiful golden tresses. ~Poor girl! she had no
2816 28| just in inflicting so much tribulation on two innocent creatures.
2817 31| different from the French tribune, whose heart was so full
2818 21| these playful little lovers' tricks were much more dangerous
2819 16| risk the prison for such a trifle, and, consequently, it is
2820 15| vicious, but I'm not to be trifled with, as far as discipline
2821 25| women who are dejected by trifles, but who in great emergencies
2822 13| engaged to leave all the trinkets of gold and silver to the
2823 29| the aes triplex -- "the triple brass" -- than Horace bestows
2824 29| encased in more of the aes triplex -- "the triple brass" --
2825 31| spirit, waits until the triumphal pageants have passed, to
2826 33| Cornelius and Rosa were walking triumphantly side by side and hand in
2827 31| air. ~Haarlem had no other triumphers, except its gardeners. Worshipping
2828 6 | and consequently in his triumphs; and in the course of two
2829 2 | you did the fleet of Van Tromp past the shoals of the Scheldt
2830 1 | Soldiers, ready!" ~The troopers obeyed orders with a precision
2831 21| Baerle, this was the only trophy brought back from the expedition. ~
2832 15| know on what occasions." ~"Troth," she said, laughing, "to
2833 18| doctor? They are always very troublesome fellows, these scholars." ~
2834 9 | suspended two shapeless trunks, which indeed were no more
2835 10| off the man's coat, and to tuck up his shirt sleeve. ~"Is
2836 5 | mere mention of the word "tulban," which (as we are assured
2837 7 | on the enlargement of my tulip-bed or even on a journey to
2838 5 | pertaining to the pursuits of a tulip-monomaniac! ~There were bundles of
2839 5 | had been seized with the tulipomania, made some changes in his
2840 3 | fluctuating shadows in tumultuous confusion were seen flitting
2841 1 | the prison, with all the turbulent mob following in their wake. ~
2842 33| his keen eyes rested by turns on the three extremities
2843 14| staircase of the little turret a voice which thrilled through
2844 21| showed a large tooth like a tusk, which he had in the corner
2845 1 | John de Witt, who was his tutor, had brought him up with
2846 29| hours, you say?" ~"Yes, the twelfth hour had not even struck,
2847 5 | temperature of his frames to the twentieth part of a degree. He knew
2848 31| that which a hundred and twenty-one years later, Monsieur de
2849 14| stars were beginning to twinkle, Cornelius heard on the
2850 22| shone like silver upon the two-fold stream flowing from far
2851 25| carriage. ~The man had only a two-wheel chaise, and this was the
2852 24| overpowered with the weight of his twofold happiness. ~Half an hour
2853 20| way," she said; "you are tyrants all of you. You worship
2854 1 | Providence had traced out ulterior destinies on the hidden
2855 5 | only person in Dort as yet unacquainted with the presence of Cornelius
2856 20| reproach me with the only unalloyed pleasure which I have had
2857 11| conspiracy, sentence of death was unanimously pronounced against Cornelius
2858 3 | dressed, and apparently unarmed; his arm was lean but wiry,
2859 32| by some secret messenger unavailable to other mortals had already
2860 1 | wedding themselves with unbending fidelity to liberty without
2861 19| legible hand when Cornelius so uncautiously opened his heart, she did
2862 18| which we possess to the uncertain chances of the bad passions
2863 4 | but the day before very uncertainly established in his new power,
2864 23| left him no longer in any uncertainty before they had grown one
2865 2 | Gentlemen," he said, "uncock your muskets, one of them
2866 20| the door, affecting the unconcerned air of an ordinary visitor
2867 20| brought her fresh cheek, as if unconsciously, so near the iron grating,
2868 25| long. ~He sent one of the under-turnkeys to call her; and, when the
2869 2 | was resting, after having undergone the preparatory degrees
2870 6 | particular tulip which we have undertaken to write, and to that we
2871 14| the nurse found herself in undisputed possession of the pigeons
2872 26| that I will leave him in undisturbed possession of the tulip
2873 33| The Prince then slowly unfolded the parchment, and said,
2874 27| Monseigneur, take it." ~And Rosa, unfolding the paper, offered the bulb
2875 5 | into politics, the most ungrateful of all careers, and who
2876 13| the very foremost rank, unguibus et rostro, -- that is to
2877 20| is the cause of all the unhappiness I have suffered these eight
2878 16| or the air of the place unhealthy, or the gin bad, and leave
2879 10| her shoulder; he put his unhurt arm around her neck, and
2880 7 | interdicted to the profane uninitiated. ~Never had any of his servants
2881 8 | answered Boxtel, with an almost unintelligible voice. ~"Well, Mynheer Boxtel,
2882 33| He saw it at last, that unique flower, which he was to
2883 31| rendered by an entire nation, unlettered and unrefined, to the refinement
2884 | unlike
2885 23| Rosa into the garden had unmasked him in the eyes of the young
2886 1 | Buytenhof remained cool, unmoved, silent, much more threatening
2887 24| together. Away with you, unnatural daughter! And as to you,
2888 9 | his prison, of which it is unnecessary to say more, as the reader
2889 3 | suspecting master, or an unquiet thief; and a police officer
2890 31| entire nation, unlettered and unrefined, to the refinement and culture
2891 14| day; and, after a month of unsuccessful attempts, he at last caught
2892 5 | will certainly come to an untimely end." ~Having given utterance
2893 6 | manly genius -- this patient untiring labour, of which Boxtel
2894 16| cats. A couple of those untoward animals laid waste two of
2895 20| well know, is the object uppermost in your mind." ~Rosa pronounced
2896 8 | would necessarily be a great upset in his house, and during
2897 2 | opposed the most perfect urbanity. ~"Gentlemen," he said, "
2898 11| as though they wanted to urge Cornelius to make a better
2899 32| listened to his anxious and urgent request. ~Then addressing
2900 6 | of the heart of man, it urges him on, without letting
2901 4 | the driver was no longer urging his horses with the same
2902 29| informing their prisoner of the usages and customs of Loewestein,
2903 8 | to Boxtel the abyss of a uselessly committed crime. ~Boxtel
2904 30| Room into which she was ushered, she found the Prince writing. ~
2905 | using
2906 18| shall find them, as there usually are three suckers!'" ~"Three
2907 6 | pretender whose throne he had usurped. ~He went on in his career,
2908 8 | servants were all in the utmost confusion. ~He heard the
2909 19| with grief, and pale from utter prostration, stretch out
2910 32| first sight seemed to be utterly disconnected with his own
2911 1 | signature the two letters V. C. (Vi Coactus), notifying
2912 14| Barneveldt happened to be vacant, when the clemency of the
2913 19| intended to fix, at the vainly hoped for interview, the
2914 2 | dragoons, explaining to the valiant townsmen, that his order
2915 5 | but they were proud of his valour; and when he made his entrance
2916 31| as if they were sticks of vanilla sweetmeat; neither is our
2917 26| composition which stimulated his vanity, both as a burgomaster and
2918 1 | which is natural to all vanquished people, when they hope that
2919 14| beneath our pen like the varied hues of a many coloured
2920 33| that a great number of his varieties found a place in the catalogue
2921 14| and Rotterdam, seeking variety, doubtless, in the flavour
2922 6 | congenial climate -- how to vary the colours, to modify the
2923 21| him a black one in a china vase. ~Cornelius then awoke,
2924 22| heart, at the cloudless vault of heaven, and the moon,
2925 18| struggling against some vehement desire. ~"No!" he cried
2926 33| and covered with a lace veil, which fell in rich folds
2927 4 | his eyes were for a moment veiled behind the lids. ~The officer
2928 6 | border, he analysed every vein of the flowering tulips,
2929 8 | jaws of the bronze lions at Venice, produce a more prompt and
2930 5 | a large, airy, and well ventilated chamber where to preserve
2931 2 | will not suffice to send a verbal message; unfortunately,
2932 5 | fertilised the mist which the verdant screen could not prevent
2933 11| began to deliberate on the verdict. ~They considered that every
2934 12| Baerle was sufficiently versed in the history of his country
2935 1 | with the money for our vessels, our arsenals, and our dockyards,
2936 12| but, the first feeling of vexation and disappointment over,
2937 19| planted at all! ~These two vexations combined might well make
2938 19| Never did the metal voice vibrate more forcibly through the
2939 15| The last chime was still vibrating through the air, when Cornelius
2940 15| under my care. I am not vicious, but I'm not to be trifled
2941 31| those who had won notable victories in the field of science,
2942 5 | that both sides claimed the victory, that the fighting would
2943 1 | This by no means suited the views of the Orange faction. The
2944 28| Gryphus to expect that his vigilance would relax, even for one
2945 29| arm, dealt the jailer a vigorous blow on the wrist of that
2946 1 | John de Witt had, like the vilest criminal, to undergo, in
2947 5 | town and the neighbouring villages. ~Being once safe, he left
2948 10| rogues, those wretches, those villains, the De Witts?" ~"Don't
2949 33| arriving at the Hotel de Ville, the Prince, pointing with
2950 11| carnations at the dungeon of Vincennes at the very moment when
2951 31| of hatred and ambitious vindictiveness, was the honest President,
2952 23| budding sprays of the wild vine and the honeysuckle encircling
2953 10| second time. ~"Go and fetch vinegar, mademoiselle," said Cornelius; "
2954 26| of the young man in the violet coat, sat down in his turn,
2955 26| young man, simply clad in a violet-coloured velvet, embroidered with
2956 20| so tenderly caressed the violets and the wall-flowers, will
2957 6 | changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the other
2958 28| as if I had done the most virtuous action, why not go and fetch
2959 17| friend who is so assiduous in visiting him." ~"Ah, so," said Cornelius,
2960 19| prevented from coming, but had voluntarily stayed away. Thus Rosa,
2961 5 | large lines set to catch the voracious eels, which are attracted
2962 31| not wish to be outdone, voted a like sum, which was placed
2963 25| no means abashed, having vowed in her heart, in pursuing
2964 28| not taking the way of the vulgar, that high road of mediocrity
2965 3 | between the eagle and the vulture, -- serenity or restlessness. ~
2966 11| which bore the initials C. W. ~"What is this?" asked
2967 25| rendered complete by his waddling gait which made him even
2968 28| eat a pigeon every day. Wagers have been laid to do so,
2969 14| having been left without wages, first lived on his little
2970 20| dark beauty with a slender waist, small feet, and a noble
2971 31| true philosophic spirit, waits until the triumphal pageants
2972 20| caressed the violets and the wall-flowers, will flutter with just
2973 28| Taciturn and the female walrus captured at Stavesen, and
2974 28| two hands, whilst his eyes wandered over the distant hazy horizon
2975 27| whilst his thoughts were wandering in that labyrinth without
2976 14| In the course of their wanderings, these pigeons with others
2977 28| called out, -- ~"Halloa! my warbling gentleman, don't you hear
2978 33| Cornelius did not die. ~And to ward off any envious attempts
2979 18| continued Van Baerle, warming more and more with his subject, "
2980 27| your Highness has now been warned against this impostor and
2981 1 | salutary check on these civic warriors; but by degrees they waxed
2982 7 | encounter in times of civil wars will be soothed down, and
2983 23| her bedroom. He saw Rosa washing in pails of water her pretty
2984 18| is that Master Jacob, who watches all our ways." ~"Well, that
2985 28| sentinels ten times more watchful? And have not I, besides
2986 9 | on which the traditional water-jug of the prison was standing,
2987 6 | endless reflections of two water-mirrors those intended for white,
2988 11| and the Great Conde, who watered his carnations at the dungeon
2989 3 | it was seen issuing like waters from a spout. ~At the head
2990 5 | river, which held in its watery embrace so many enchanting
2991 5 | so as to adapt it to the wave of the stems of his flowers.
2992 3 | observed the paper, which was waving above the surface of clenched
2993 9 | surrounded by a profusion of rich wavy golden locks, whilst with
2994 33| encounter. To judge from the weals which he counted, their
2995 19| Cornelius was a scholar, and was wealthy, -- at least he had been
2996 1 | against the feeling of weariness which is natural to all
2997 13| as mythology teaches us, wears a head-dress of serpents. ~ ~
2998 4 | shade of the overhanging weather-board of a closed shop, the doings
2999 1 | martyrs who, indissolubly wedded to their political convictions
3000 1 | fancies of the mob, and wedding themselves with unbending
3001 6 | successes. Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his
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