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