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1501 3,2| is the order!" a hundred insolent voices answered at once. ~
1502 7,1| studio to the green-house, inspecting everything, from the pictures
1503 21,2| father's first and second inspection." ~"Yes, Rosa, let it be
1504 23,1| Cornelius. ~He had not been installed more than three days in
1505 3,1| charged with having been the instigator of all this work, indeed,
1506 6,1| to master with the true instinct of genius, that Boxtel at
1507 11,3| everything in the world besides, instinctively grasped the precious deposit
1508 24,1| ruefully. ~"One minute only, to instruct our messenger, who lives
1509 4,2| has been your Highness's instructor? If there be any means,
1510 31,2| wonder; that Holland, by the instrumentality of him, Boxtel, has forced
1511 17,1| the flesh tint. ~Rosa's intellect rapidly developed itself
1512 5,3| guilders, devoting all his intellectual and financial resources
1513 29,2| must he die without any intelligence of the black tulip, and
1514 7,2| that is to say, all the intelligent people of Europe - will
1515 28,2| akimbo. ~"It seems your intention to threaten me, Master Gryphus." ~"
1516 21,2| near, not by accident, but intentionally, and Cornelius kissed her
1517 7,1| was, as Delphi of old, interdicted to the profane uninitiated. ~
1518 5,3| that, having to paint the interior of a tulip-grower's, he
1519 15,2| heard nothing of this short interlude; and, after having closed
1520 3,1| then heard addressing an interpellation to Mynheer Bowelt, whom
1521 1,1| posterity. But when Satan interposes in human affairs to cast
1522 31,2| and hence think they can interpret, something of their true
1523 11,2| loved my flowers. Don't interrupt me, Rosa dear, I have only
1524 25,1| canals, rivers, and rivulets intersecting the country, is exceedingly
1525 1,2| hinted the Orange agitators interspersed through the crowd, whom
1526 9,2| east wind, had thrown up at intervals a sudden glare as far as
1527 10,1| Cornelius had made use of the intervening moments to take off the
1528 7,1| aloof from every sort of intrigue. ~And, besides, if the parcel
1529 23,2| the tulip; the second, to introduce himself into the dry-room
1530 11,2| Behind this turnkey, who introduced the Recorder, Rosa, the
1531 4,1| it was with the mass of intruders. ~"Gone, gone," repeated
1532 22,1| duplicate of the protocol, and intrust the tulip to him. Ah! if
1533 26,1| on seeing his staircase invaded, up to the very landing-place,
1534 16,2| to keep her pretty face invariably six inches distant from
1535 8 | 8. An Invasion~
1536 1,2| began to vent its rage by inveighing against the iniquitous judges,
1537 6,2| windows, Boxtel saw the inventive genius of his rival at work. ~
1538 13,2| deny, was a very handsome investment. ~The headsman, on the other
1539 2,2| might still consider herself invincible in the midst of her marshes
1540 26,2| Systens, likewise at the invitation of the young man in the
1541 21,2| cried Cornelius. "Is the involucrum open? but then one may see
1542 33,1| He saw Cornelius make an involuntary movement; and lastly he
1543 11,1| was done. ~This confession involved the godson in the crime
1544 11,3| yard through the narrow iron-barred window of his cell, he perceived
1545 15,1| whilst the prisoner smiled ironically at the old jailer, Rosa,
1546 21,1| late, was now cheered and irradiated by the light of love. ~When
1547 28,1| feel a strange and almost irresistible pugnacity. Well, I shall
1548 29,1| Cornelius felt that he was irretrievably lost. ~In fact, appearances
1549 13,2| metals? ~Every trifling delay irritated him. Why did that stupid
1550 13,1| meant, - ~"It's a bargain, isn't it?" ~The executioner
1551 20,1| himself quite alone, quite isolated, and out of everybody's
1552 16,1| brought to a successful issue!" ~"I know it all now,"
1553 3,2| from which it was seen issuing like waters from a spout. ~
1554 31,2| girls, with red cheeks and ivory bosoms; nor in the fat,
1555 2,1| suppose you killed every man Jack of us, those whom we should
1556 14,1| famous book-chest which the jailers forgot to examine. ~On the
1557 17,1| those who are sent into jails to watch both prisoners
1558 31,2| travellers from Ceylon or Java; nor in the thirsty crowds,
1559 8,1| paper, slipped into the jaws of the bronze lions at Venice,
1560 28,2| Gryphus went on, in his jeering way, "as you are a sorcerer,
1561 20,2| honey-suckles, the rose, the jessamine, and the carnation." ~"What
1562 31,1| velvet, dark purple silk, and jet-black cloth, with linen of dazzling
1563 7,3| dry-room, "take your gold, your jewelry, and fly, fly!" ~"But how
1564 29,1| tale, when footsteps and a jingling of spurs were heard ascending
1565 9,1| quite enchanted with his joke, the ferocious Orangeman
1566 16,1| grow, I shall have several journeys to convey it to you, as
1567 33,1| thunderstruck, and Cornelius, in joyful amazement, both exclaimed, - ~"
1568 11,2| to die calmly, and even joyfully, as he dies a martyr. Come,
1569 22,1| came, and with it Rosa, joyous and cheerful as a bird. ~"
1570 14,1| eggs in her stead, flew joyously to Dort, with the note under
1571 17,2| which he had rested so many joys and so many hopes. ~"We
1572 7,1| carefully sealed, which Boxtel, judging from the manner in which
1573 19,1| she took a very clear and judicious view of her own social position,
1574 6,2| heat; the clear water, the juices of the earth, and the cool
1575 17,2| destruction, got a glimpse of the juicy remains of his darling bulb,
1576 22,1| was to meet the lips of Julie a hundred years later. ~
1577 12,1| the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine,
1578 11,1| might be produced as his justification. ~Cornelius replied that
1579 29,1| which had provoked and might justify his offence, Cornelius felt
1580 31,1| is a pleasant city, which justly prides itself on being one
1581 1,2| the first strophe of the "Justum ac tenacem" of Horace, and,
1582 33,2| old man made the rudest keeper of flowers in the whole
1583 17,1| both prisoners and their keepers." ~"I don't believe that,"
1584 17,1| under my point lace, which keeps it dry, without pressing
1585 13,2| began to belabour him with kicks and cuffs, such as could
1586 32,1| officer, with that frank kindliness which is peculiar to military
1587 1,1| existence, or to overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens that
1588 11,3| with a melancholy smile, kissing the trembling hands of the
1589 5,1| thrown every day from the kitchens into the river. ~Craeke,
1590 15,1| lantern with it." ~Gryphus knitted his brow. "Now, that's just
1591 1,1| citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets
1592 3,2| his lieutenant with the knob of his sword; "I really
1593 27,2| out in the words, - ~"Thou knowest best for what end Thou madest
1594 28,1| and crippled; I should be labelled, and put on exhibition in
1595 5,3| There were bundles of labels, cupboards, and drawers
1596 5,2| beloved by his servants and labourers; nor had he any conception
1597 27,2| thoughts were wandering in that labyrinth without a goal and without
1598 22,1| was under the sun.' I only lack one thing, Rosa." ~"And
1599 19,2| himself with giving the laconical answer, - ~"All's well." ~
1600 19,2| Nobody," replied, even more laconically, the jailer, shutting the
1601 24,2| your eyes. I tell you, my lambkins, you shall not much longer
1602 22,2| smooth and straight as iron lance-heads; the whole of the flower
1603 5,1| hero of this story, as his landed property in the province
1604 25,2| This report was written on large-sized paper, in the finest handwriting
1605 16,2| tender an anxiety as he had lately shown to herself. ~"Well,"
1606 19,2| prisoner entertained some latent hope that Rosa would, somehow
1607 11,3| course, you do not understand Latin, and might therefore forget
1608 10,2| Mynheer Cornelius de Witt, laughed in a very strange and very
1609 31,2| its illustrious and devout leaders, whose blood had stained
1610 3,1| apparently unarmed; his arm was lean but wiry, and his hands
1611 15,2| bulbs." ~Cornelius's heart leaped with joy. He had not yet
1612 5,1| on a wooden stool, or a leathern chair, in a counting-house
1613 17,2| raise his jug below the ledge of tiles and stone before
1614 8,2| houses of Amsterdam their ledgers, Boxtel read these lines: - ~"
1615 5,2| When, guided by the pilot Leger, he had come within musket-shot
1616 19,1| already able to write a legible hand when Cornelius so uncautiously
1617 8,2| unfortunate Van Baerle had so leisurely, and with such intense delight,
1618 22,2| one hand she raised to the level of the grating a dark lantern,
1619 6,2| into a belief that he was levelling a never-failing musket at
1620 28,2| who strikes a prisoner is liable to two penalties, - the
1621 5,2| visited, as the galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by illustrious
1622 1,1| fidelity to liberty without licentiousness, and prosperity without
1623 4,2| moment veiled behind the lids. ~The officer saw this sign
1624 1,3| them single-handed, merely lifting his sword and contracting
1625 23,2| Boxtel touched with a still lighter hand the lock of Rosa's
1626 7,1| seizing the candlestick, and lighting him on his way down to the
1627 24,2| tulip. The flower was so lightly pressed upon all sides,
1628 7,1| servants who were carrying the lights respectfully fell back.
1629 5,2| eyes and ears by a man who likes to use his reflective powers
1630 6,2| to write, and to that we limit ourselves, however alluring
1631 25,2| its chalice, and his two limp arms representing the double
1632 29,2| All at once, Gryphus, limping, staggering, and supporting
1633 31,1| arches of magnificent oaks, lindens, and chestnuts. ~Haarlem, -
1634 5,3| started amongst all the Linnaeuses and Tourneforts a tulip
1635 8,1| into the jaws of the bronze lions at Venice, produce a more
1636 17,1| complexion of Rosa, her blue liquid eyes, and her golden hair
1637 6,2| seeds, and soaking them in liquids which were destined to modify
1638 5,3| who, being expelled from Lisbon, had retired to the island
1639 5,1| he left his horse at a livery stable in order not to arouse
1640 5,3| ground disposed in beds of loam mixed with river mud (a
1641 23,1| garden, but also to the lobbies. ~Only as this time he followed
1642 17,1| dearest Rosa, be careful in locking up the third sucker which
1643 25,1| Rosa answered not. ~The locksmith of the fortress was sent
1644 17,2| three hundred of them in my loft." ~"To the devil with your
1645 3,3| Rosa, they emerged into a lonely street where their carriage
1646 31,2| At length the great and long-expected day - May 15, 1673 - arrived;
1647 14,1| the river, and casting a longing look to the windmills of
1648 20,2| eight years. I am on the look-out for that young man, and
1649 1,1| fortunes of the Grand Monarch loomed in the future, was William,
1650 14,1| old city Dort, which were looming in the distance behind a
1651 18,1| collar; but he immediately loosed him. Then, turning towards
1652 24,2| Cornelius, he gradually loosened his hold of the bars, which
1653 2,2| perishable frame gradually loosening, that it seemed to him as
1654 20,2| the faculty of reading the love-letters which she received. ~"As
1655 21,1| wings, whilst others were lovingly cooing on the roof or near
1656 17,2| of which he was able to lower or to raise his jug below
1657 3,2| immediately sallied forth, with lowered arms and fierce shouts,
1658 21,1| had been heavy, dark, and lowering, as it were, with all its
1659 23,2| with her light foot the lowest step of the staircase, Boxtel
1660 19,1| poor Rosa, the jailer's lowly child. ~Thus Rosa understood
1661 9,1| city closed. ~A momentary lull had therefore set in whilst
1662 23,1| Texel to Antwerp, and he lulled the suspicion of the jealous
1663 19,1| tulip, indeed, was still a luminous and prominent object in
1664 22,2| the hills. He filled his lungs with the pure, sweet air,
1665 5,1| rushes, and abounding in luxurious vegetation, whereon flocks
1666 31,2| Banquo's ghost did that of Macbeth. ~And yet, if the truth
1667 6,1| that Boxtel at last was maddened to such a degree as to think
1668 27,2| knowest best for what end Thou madest my good Cornelius teach
1669 29,1| long as it remained in the madman's hand, the ruffian might
1670 24,2| continued, passing from the madness of anger to the cool irony
1671 7,2| peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras, and especially in that
1672 11,1| infinitely obliged to the magistracy of the Hague if they simplified
1673 13,1| roared in honour of the most magnanimous Stadtholder, mixing with
1674 31,2| popular adoration, will take a magnificently emblazoned parchment, on
1675 16,1| jailer, in his zeal, had magnified with all the power of his
1676 22,1| his lips met those of the maiden, - not by chance, nor by
1677 33,1| a raised step among the maidens of Haarlem, a beautiful
1678 28,1| myself, I should be picked up maimed and crippled; I should be
1679 6,2| him pleasure if we were to maintain and establish that nothing
1680 12,1| granted to him for his daily maintenance the sum of twenty-four stivers. ~"
1681 7,1| appeared. ~One of them, tall, majestic, stern, sat down near the
1682 20,1| after having finished my make-believe work, I retired." ~"But
1683 6,1| towards him such a volley of maledictions and furious threats as to
1684 4,3| wish," William of Orange malignantly muttered to himself, with
1685 28,1| preceding days too much fury and malignity in the eyes of old Gryphus
1686 31,1| for the construction of a man-of-war - that is to say, for the
1687 23,1| ambition of the father, he managed, at the same time, to interest
1688 14,2| who was his nurse, has the management of it. As soon as I received
1689 6,2| and marvellously delicate manipulation, - and when he shut up in
1690 6,2| child-like musings and of manly genius - this patient untiring
1691 6,1| Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his beds, whilst,
1692 1,1| destinies on the hidden map of the future. ~The Grand
1693 6,1| with purple and pink, the "Marble of Rotterdam," colour of
1694 2,1| hundred others; "let us march to the Town-hall; let us
1695 7,1| his godfather with every mark of respect, and put it by
1696 21,2| From that hour every day marked some progress in the growth
1697 18,1| a hundred of them in the market of Gorcum.' ~"'Perhaps some
1698 31,1| splendour of their shops and markets, Haarlem's claims to fame
1699 19,1| than did the last stroke, marking the ninth hour, through
1700 4,2| indignation," said the young marl, with the same impassible
1701 33,2| after two years of her married life, could read and write
1702 2,2| invincible in the midst of her marshes and canals." ~"All this
1703 12,1| is to say, more than one martyrdom, on the poor tulip-fancier. ~
1704 6,2| grafting, - a minute and marvellously delicate manipulation, -
1705 6,1| feelings of an artist, the master-piece of a rival engrossed his
1706 5,2| ever used to designate that masterpiece of floriculture which is
1707 9,2| the pavement, and the slow matches of the arquebuses, flaring
1708 1,1| and the pressure of whose material power Holland had been made
1709 6,1| a man, it would not have mattered so very much. ~Yet Van Baerle
1710 7,2| than Alexander, Caesar, or Maximilian. ~"Oh the admirable bulbs!" ~
1711 | Maybe
1712 31,1| Committee, who were as gay as a meadow, and as fragrant as a garden
1713 7,1| who was just taking his meal by his fireside. He inquired
1714 | meantime
1715 17,2| towards her; "don't you meddle with what don't concern
1716 10,1| said Gryphus, "are you a medical man?" ~"It was formerly
1717 28,1| vulgar, that high road of mediocrity which leads to everything. ~"
1718 8,1| least detail of the private meeting between Cornelius de Witt
1719 21,2| is the first object that meets my eyes, and on falling
1720 28,2| heightened by its calm and sweet melody, exasperated Gryphus. ~He
1721 28,1| break, or my wings would melt in the sun; I should surely
1722 17,2| agony, which would have melted the heart even of that ruthless
1723 3,1| which grew more and more menacing against the two brothers,
1724 5,2| upon which De Ruyter, his mentor, made so sharp and well
1725 19,1| Cornelius belonged to the merchant-bourgeoisie, who were prouder of their
1726 15,2| expose them to the tender mercies of his bullying jailer,
1727 5,1| outlines of its roof were merging in the yellow foliage of
1728 1,3| rogues will in France make merry with our money, with the
1729 27,1| Rosa obeyed, as if under mesmeric influence, without having
1730 10,1| brought the prisoner his mess, slipped on the damp flags
1731 15,2| away for ever those gentle messengers to whom he owed the happiness
1732 19,1| struck nine. Never did the metal voice vibrate more forcibly
1733 13,2| gold is the hardest of all metals? ~Every trifling delay irritated
1734 31,1| speaking, the horticultural metropolis. ~In fact, girt about as
1735 23,1| female figures of Mieris and Metzys, Rosa appeared at that window
1736 5,3| whilst keeping out slugs, mice, dormice, and rats, all
1737 9,1| see that a hurricane of mighty fury had vented itself upon
1738 2,1| intentions of his own beloved militia, shouted most lustily, - ~"
1739 6,1| the "Beauty of Brabant," milk-white, edged with purple and pink,
1740 7,1| of pulling to pieces and mincing the idol of her foster child. ~
1741 26,1| struck her, just as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles by the hair
1742 2,1| the very moment when the mingled shouts of the burgher guard
1743 7,1| Marquis de Louvois, the war minister of the King of France; only
1744 5,3| paintings, which were as minutely finished as those of Gerard
1745 1,1| to force. ~It was a real miracle that on that day he escaped
1746 22,2| held to the same height the miraculous tulip. ~Cornelius uttered
1747 1,1| with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and
1748 1,2| Christian charity. ~This daring miscreant detailed, with all the embellishments
1749 4,3| On this, every one of the miscreants, emboldened by his fall,
1750 18,2| sigh, - "watch over it as a miser over his first or last piece
1751 12,1| stivers, and I shall live miserably; but never mind, at all
1752 27,2| and uneasy, tormented by misgivings about that paper which William
1753 20,1| I regretted, you whom I missed, you whose absence I felt
1754 29,2| here is a fellow who never misses giving consolation whenever
1755 25,1| vain, the tulip was still missing; the tulip was indeed stolen. ~
1756 24,2| dear Cornelius, is he? Ah! Missy has communications with
1757 13,2| affairs had taken. They, mistaking the frantic cries of Mynheer
1758 16,1| Van Baerle, having become mistrustful in his captivity, continued, "
1759 6,1| flower-beds of his neighbour. The mists of the morning chilled his
1760 12,1| exclaimed, "how damp and misty that part of the country
1761 5,2| been sundered by the least misunderstanding during their lives, and
1762 13,1| magnanimous Stadtholder, mixing with it a spice of abuse
1763 6,1| Cornelius van Baerle, the modest and inoffensive savant. ~
1764 8,1| notwithstanding all his modesty, had not been able to hide
1765 6,1| tulips, and meditated on the modifications which might be effected
1766 16,1| and, if it be necessary, modified it, we will divide our three
1767 6,2| heating certain grains, then moistening them, then combining them
1768 16,2| the sun, and abundance of moisture." ~"All true, all true,"
1769 1,1| the fortunes of the Grand Monarch loomed in the future, was
1770 5,2| Soon people from Dort to Mons began to talk of Mynheer
1771 31,1| twenty-one years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed
1772 22,2| vault of heaven, and the moon, which shone like silver
1773 5,1| for as to toiling from morn to evening on a wooden stool,
1774 21,1| he no longer found him morose and lying in bed, but standing
1775 28,2| pigeon is a very dainty morsel, and a man who eats one
1776 1,1| was severely although not mortally wounded. ~This by no means
1777 32,2| messenger unavailable to other mortals had already been apprised
1778 5,1| the fine red brick houses, mortared in white lines, standing
1779 15,1| only give them brandy or Moselle, but scholars, and drink,
1780 33,2| him watching the obnoxious moths and butterflies, killing
1781 10,1| threshold, where he remained motionless and cold, as if dead. ~During
1782 6,1| school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century
1783 6,2| perceived furrows and little mounds of earth on the beds which
1784 32,2| miserable; the one going to mount a throne, the other believing
1785 29,1| dotting the slopes of a mountain ridge. ~A protocol of the
1786 9,1| whilst the prisoner was mounting the staircase, appeared
1787 1,1| French refugees for the mouthpiece of their spite. Their national
1788 7,1| enter, by opening one of the movable sashes of the glass front. ~
1789 6,1| with hideous caterwaulings, mowing down with their string the
1790 13,2| of the Hague, with their muddy feet, had passed over him. ~
1791 31,2| their Sunday clothes, and munching their heavy cakes; nor in
1792 8,2| hour the burghers must be murdering Mynheer Cornelius and Mynheer
1793 33,1| beauty excited a general murmur of applause. ~"Oh!" muttered
1794 26,2| So it is, sir," Rosa murmured in dismay; "yes, I am bound
1795 28,1| put on exhibition in the museum at the Hague between the
1796 6,2| same time of child-like musings and of manly genius - this
1797 29,1| very cleverly lodged a musket-ball each in his body. ~In consequence
1798 29,2| flinching receive as many musket-balls as that Mathias." ~Saying
1799 5,2| Leger, he had come within musket-shot of the "Prince," with the
1800 7,3| the Hague." ~Cornelius, in mute stupefaction, embraced his
1801 32,2| Is this person the mutinous prisoner who has attempted
1802 5,2| their lives, and by their mutual devotion in the face of
1803 4,3| fired a pistol with the muzzle to his face; and this time
1804 10,2| a swoon, that the dog is muzzled, and that consequently there
1805 16,2| Rosa was taught all the mysteries of the art, formed the principal
1806 16,1| as before, with the same mysteriousness and the same precaution.
1807 13,2| goddess of envy who, as mythology teaches us, wears a head-dress
1808 | namely
1809 15,2| because, thanks to this nap, I shall be able to come
1810 28,1| make acquaintance with the nape of my neck. ~"It will not
1811 1,1| the middle of which our narrative commences, were not indissolubly
1812 11,1| brothers De Witt against Dutch nationality and in their secret relations
1813 5,2| of a cult of it than ever naturalists dared to make of the human
1814 31,1| fetes; never did sluggish natures manifest more eager energy
1815 21,2| t talk in that way, you naughty girl." ~That evening Cornelius
1816 26,1| two officers, one of the navy, and the other of the cavalry. ~
1817 1,1| Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might
1818 4,2| being relieved from the necessity of witnessing the shocking
1819 15,1| shall certainly wring their necks before twenty-four hours
1820 21,2| long, and tapers like a needle, the cylinder swells at
1821 4,1| was life and liberty, he neglected every precaution, and set
1822 18,1| What do I know?' I said, negligently; 'do I understand anything
1823 2,2| against us that we have negotiated with France." ~"What blockheads
1824 2,2| it." ~"And yet, if these negotiations had been successful, they
1825 31,2| Haarlem, swelled by her neighbours, was gathered in the beautiful
1826 31,1| the most shady in all the Netherlands. ~While other towns boast
1827 2,2| He was so absorbed in his never-ceasing pain that it had almost
1828 6,2| that he was levelling a never-failing musket at him; and then
1829 | nevertheless
1830 4,2| or eight others. ~These new-comers evidently meant mischief
1831 9,1| dog rushed forth from a niche in the wall, shaking his
1832 9,1| left she held her white night-dress closely over her breast,
1833 19,1| last stroke, marking the ninth hour, through the heart
1834 16,1| complain most bitterly of Noah for having put a couple
1835 19,1| signs than the hereditary nobility of their heraldic bearings.
1836 31,1| magistrates, the military, the nobles and the boors. ~The people,
1837 19,1| say, upon the proudest and noblest of flowers, rather than
1838 19,1| evening none of those little noises broke the silence of the
1839 9,2| violently slamming the door, and noisily drawing the bolts. ~Recovering
1840 29,1| Yes, Captain," answered a non-commissioned officer. ~"Then this is
1841 5,3| sufficient shade to temper the noonday heat; aspect south-southwest;
1842 30,1| beyond Leyden, having the North Sea on his left, and the
1843 31,1| curious. ~At the head of the notables and of the Horticultural
1844 17,1| atom of soil, without his noticing it." ~"Oh, yes, yes, he
1845 1,1| letters V. C. (Vi Coactus), notifying thereby that he only yielded
1846 17,1| which are the delight of the novelist who has to describe them. ~
1847 4,2| alluded to had, for its nucleus, those three men whom we
1848 6,1| have equalled in point of numbers. ~And also, if Dante had
1849 20,2| Rosa. But I am afraid the nursing of my tulip will take up
1850 16,1| circumstances which may interest our nursling; such as change of weather,
1851 6,2| approaching even to a dark nut brown. It was, therefore,
1852 6,2| obtained flowers of a perfect nut-brown, and Boxtel espied them
1853 31,1| lovely arches of magnificent oaks, lindens, and chestnuts. ~
1854 4,2| a volley of the fiercest oaths. ~"Alas!" said Cornelius, "
1855 4,2| to his sense of military obedience than to his pleasure at
1856 2,1| their pay, I faithfully obey their orders." ~As the Count
1857 11,3| falling down senseless, still obeying her friend, had pressed
1858 18,1| her father would make no objection to his cultivating flowers. ~"
1859 7,2| for a man who is under no obligation whatever. Then, with the
1860 30,1| being questioned. ~That obliging person would undoubtedly
1861 33,2| to see him watching the obnoxious moths and butterflies, killing
1862 6,1| Haarlem," the "Colombin obscur," and the "Columbin clair
1863 5,3| instead of being some unknown, obscure gardener, was the godson
1864 9,1| details are absorbed in the obscurity, the mastiff, with his eyes
1865 3,1| subject for physiognomical observations which at the first blush
1866 14,1| house, his servants, his observatory, and his telescope, but
1867 11,1| character of a profound observer, laid down as his opinion
1868 26,2| Van Systens. ~The Prince, observing the fright of Rosa and the
1869 7,1| unless it were to allow some occasional rays of the sun to enter,
1870 4,2| they felt a severe shock, occasioned by the rearing of the horses.
1871 7,1| in his opinion, was more occult than alchemy itself? ~It
1872 6,1| and thus his favourite occupation was changed into a constant
1873 33,2| in the latter of which occupations he was so successful that
1874 11,2| The last thought which occupies my mind, however has reference
1875 10,2| being told that you are occupying the cell of Mynheer Cornelius
1876 1,1| concurrence of circumstances does occur, history is prompt to record
1877 7,2| succeed in giving it the odour of the rose or the carnation,
1878 29,1| provoked and might justify his offence, Cornelius felt that he
1879 26,2| cognizance to take of political offences. Go on, young woman, go
1880 19,2| then, was not ill, she was offended; she had not been forcibly
1881 6,1| he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure." ~By
1882 29,1| minutes, Gryphus on the offensive, and Van Baerle on the defensive. ~
1883 4,1| Monseigneur replied, in an offhand manner; "and the greatest
1884 1,2| be deposed from all his offices and dignities; to pay all
1885 29,2| them, which the man, in his official complaisance, would not
1886 11,1| They considered that every offshoot of civil discord is mischievous,
1887 7,2| name shall we call this offspring of my sleepless nights,
1888 7,2| in that island which in olden times, as is asserted, was
1889 14,1| Van Baerle an auspicious omen that this very cell was
1890 15,1| less yours than mine." ~"Omittance is no acquittance," growled
1891 16,1| of turnkey was not a very onerous one, but rather a sort of
1892 2,3| bandages drops of blood oozed out which the pressure of
1893 6,2| already withering, the sap oozing from their bleeding bulbs:
1894 20,2| had grasped through the openings of the grating for the receding
1895 19,2| time for that momentous operation. The weather was propitious;
1896 31,2| their friends and their opponents always endeavour to detect,
1897 2,1| threats, to which the Count opposed the most perfect urbanity. ~"
1898 29,2| Cornelius, whose heart felt oppressed by the first dread of death. "
1899 11,1| that he needs no longer any oppressive means to ruin him. ~Cornelius
1900 9,1| his joke, the ferocious Orangeman took his cresset and his
1901 13,2| from the stone upon some Orangemen, who, like him, were sorely
1902 1,1| threats of death from the Orangist rabble, who besieged him
1903 3,1| young man, glancing at the orator. ~"It is the Deputy Bowelt,"
1904 31,1| to music and painting, orchards and avenues, groves and
1905 9,2| sufferings which God might ordain for him. ~Then turning again
1906 25,2| of the black tulip, and ordering the hundred thousand guilders
1907 20,1| the unconcerned air of an ordinary visitor of the garden." ~"
1908 11,1| character, of an amphibious organisation, working with equal ardour
1909 24,2| tulip, and, breaking the original flower-pot, threw the pieces
1910 33,2| Holland. ~The two principal ornaments of his drawing-room were
1911 30,1| and the tulip, like two orphan sisters, had been left by
1912 2,2| prevented the defeats of Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg; the
1913 15,2| tender kiss. ~At this sudden outburst of tenderness, Rosa grew
1914 13,1| a better place; but he, outdoing even them, had passed the
1915 31,1| which did not wish to be outdone, voted a like sum, which
1916 6,2| future against a similar outrage, he gave orders that henceforth
1917 11,3| of the Stadtholder, the outraged remains of the two brothers
1918 15,1| I tell you, at the very outset, it won't be such an easy
1919 32,1| driving along the road on the outskirts of the green on which the
1920 21,1| were hovering about with outspread wings, whilst others were
1921 11,3| halberds, only a form lying outstretched near a wooden bench, and
1922 20,1| he perceived that he was outwitted. Then, keeping down the
1923 1,3| only defence of the prison, overawed by its firm attitude not
1924 6,1| whole tale, and his heart overflowing with gall now throbbed with
1925 4,1| Buytenhof, in the shade of the overhanging weather-board of a closed
1926 29,2| who was at his heels, to overhear him. ~That kind soul very
1927 16,1| window of my sleeping-room overlooks it." ~"Well, on moonlight
1928 9,1| brothers when they were overtaken by the murderers, thanks
1929 1,1| some happy existence, or to overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens
1930 4,1| men before him, whom he overtook about a hundred yards farther
1931 17,2| me," continued Cornelius, overwhelmed with grief. ~"After all,
1932 31,1| In the centre of this pacific and fragrant cortege the
1933 24,2| fresh moss, in which he packed the tulip. The flower was
1934 1,1| we are wont on the first page to promise amusement, and
1935 31,1| waits until the triumphal pageants have passed, to know what
1936 1,1| mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about to add
1937 23,1| He saw Rosa washing in pails of water her pretty little
1938 32,1| tone; "the joy of others pains me; please spare me this
1939 5,3| possible, that, having to paint the interior of a tulip-grower'
1940 5,3| was not for the sake of painted tulips, but for real ones,
1941 31,1| of peace, - to music and painting, orchards and avenues, groves
1942 3,3| fugitives at the full speed of a pair of spirited Flemish horses.
1943 28,2| something that gratifies my palate, and of doing something
1944 27,1| flashed, and a death-like paleness spread over his impassible
1945 26,2| the fright of Rosa and the pallor of the President, raised
1946 19,1| repress as it were its violent palpitation, and listened. ~The noise
1947 1,1| of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob,
1948 15,2| the officers who went to parade, all the clerks, and even
1949 1,2| one of the foremost, being paraded about by the Orange party
1950 7,2| asserted, was the terrestrial paradise, and which is called Ceylon, -
1951 19,2| who had told him that its parapet overlooked the river. He
1952 1,1| be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading
1953 31,1| and avenues, groves and parks. Haarlem went wild about
1954 2,1| he was firm, he began to parley with the burghers, under
1955 2,2| increasing fury. Tilly was parleying with the burghers. ~"Well,
1956 1,3| although I certainly am more partial to happy faces than to gloomy
1957 11,1| appearance of a tulip-fancier, participated in the detestable intrigues
1958 17,2| imploringly, and anxious as the partridge robbed of her young by the
1959 20,1| soil is composed of three parts of common mould, taken from
1960 9,2| called it, - as the fatal passage leading to ignominious death. ~
1961 28,1| not like to lose it; one's passion is roused, and one's blood
1962 18,1| prisoners - that for them any pastime is of value. This poor Mynheer
1963 25,1| hastening along one of the side paths of a very pretty road by
1964 1,3| depart!" advised one of the patriots who had gained the start
1965 9,2| the heavy tramp of the patrols had resounded from the pavement,
1966 32,1| more, - ~"The feast of the patron saint of Haarlem? as I see
1967 20,2| after which followed a pause. ~"Well," - Cornelius at
1968 21,2| Here the prisoner paused, anxiously taking breath. ~"
1969 13,2| his hurry he overlooked a paving-stone in his way, stumbled, lost
1970 24,2| Yes, yes, just gnaw your paws like a bear in his cage,
1971 19,1| finished without a tear, the pearl of love, rolling from her
1972 20,2| from Cornelius this dew of pearls dropping on her cheeks, "
1973 31,2| cakes; nor in the poor young peasants, gnawing smoked eels as
1974 16,2| without a fragment of stone or pebble." ~"Well done, Rosa, well
1975 23,2| acquainted with all the peculiarities of the door of her chamber.
1976 31,2| proud tulip, raised on its pedestal, soon overlooked the assembled
1977 6,1| pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the ground, to that
1978 23,1| But when the first leaves peeped out of the earth Boxtel
1979 17,2| of vegetation was already peeping forth, had not heard old
1980 20,2| shines. But when it once peeps out of the ground, I shall
1981 17,2| some years before killed Pelisson's spider. ~The idea of striking
1982 28,2| prisoner is liable to two penalties, - the first laid down in
1983 27,2| evil-doer shall pay the penalty for both. A man of his name
1984 5,3| its way into Spain, and penetrated as far as Portugal; and
1985 7,2| must have in the Indian peninsula at Goa, Bombay, and Madras,
1986 18,2| continued Cornelius, with a pensive air. ~"What?" ~"Did you
1987 7,1| the distant and scarcely perceptible cloud which is increasing
1988 19,1| high-spirited creature, of no mean perception and a noble heart, she took
1989 5,2| iron constitution and keen perceptions, and his capital of more
1990 14,1| coming from that quarter to perch fluttering on the pointed
1991 13,1| themselves eager to see the perfidious blood of the guilty Cornelius
1992 2,1| place to us, and you will perform the part of a good citizen." ~"
1993 11,3| were obliged to make in performance of their duty. ~Then, casting
1994 4,2| name it, and if I should perish in the attempt ---- " ~William
1995 2,2| immortal being with his perishable frame gradually loosening,
1996 1,2| act which he was asked to perpetrate, he had preferred rather
1997 29,2| which a man's memory is perpetuated." ~Repressing his melancholy
1998 2,2| fixing his eyes on his perplexed brother; "a tumult?" ~"Yes,
1999 11,3| rather as friends than as persecutors, and quietly submitted to
2000 1,1| thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two