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2001 28,1| tidings of Rosa or of Jacob, persuaded himself that all that had
2002 5,3| in short, with everything pertaining to the pursuits of a tulip-monomaniac! ~
2003 19,1| Alas!" she muttered, when perusing again this document, which
2004 6,1| when, after five years, its petals at last reveal the hidden
2005 22,2| address, - ~"To Mynheer Peter van Systens, Burgomaster,
2006 13,1| was not able to admit the petitioner, who then addressed himself
2007 3,1| demand of these furibund petitioners a very queer reception." ~
2008 7,2| knees, was examining his pets, the door of the dry-room
2009 26,2| brocade headdress and red petticoat. ~At the noise of their
2010 1,2| path of murder. ~And every phase of his speech, eagerly listened
2011 9,1| instead by those sublime philosophers who lay it down as an axiom
2012 31,1| multitude, which with true philosophic spirit, waits until the
2013 29,2| right," replied the clerk, philosophically putting up his paper and
2014 11,1| that this young man, so phlegmatic in appearance, must in reality
2015 19,1| if not of her moral and physical qualities. ~Cornelius was
2016 3,1| that time, a subject for physiognomical observations which at the
2017 3,1| And indeed the sallow physiognomy, the thin and sickly body,
2018 28,1| kill myself, I should be picked up maimed and crippled;
2019 7,2| said Cornelius, eagerly picking up his precious bulbs, "
2020 31,2| quenched their thirst with pickled cucumbers; - no, so far
2021 5,3| tulip-grower. ~Boxtel at once pictured to himself this learned
2022 23,1| interest his zeal as a jailer, picturing to him in the blackest colours
2023 6,1| was pitch-dark; but the piercing cries of the cats told the
2024 6,2| cupboards, boxes, and ticketed pigeon-holes, which could easily be surveyed
2025 4,3| he stabbed him with his pike in the face, and the blood
2026 6,2| completely disordered, like the pikes of a battalion in the midst
2027 28,2| Ah, you sorcerer! I'll pinch you worse," roared Gryphus. ~"
2028 2,3| executioners have indeed pinched me badly enough, but my
2029 16,1| heat and the ashes of my pipe, and lastly, we, or rather
2030 3,1| conqueror and that of the pirate?" said the ancients. The
2031 3,2| and at last reached such a pitch that the old building shook
2032 6,1| see anything, as it was pitch-dark; but the piercing cries
2033 19,2| the fourth day. ~It was pitiful to see Cornelius, dumb with
2034 22,2| Thou merciful God, Thou pitying Father everlasting! But
2035 26,2| Go before me, and call me plain Mynheer." ~The two then
2036 15,2| execution. She uttered a plaintive sob, closed her fine eyes,
2037 1,2| the diabolical stratagems planned beforehand to smooth for
2038 1,1| constant obstacle to their plans, they changed their tactics,
2039 5,2| he wrote a treatise, with plates drawn by his own hands;
2040 3,1| companion as the fingers of a player on the keys of a harpsichord,
2041 21,1| she had no idea that these playful little lovers' tricks were
2042 17,1| pretext for now, when he could plead the same reason, as you
2043 5,3| fond of everything that pleases the eye. He studied Nature
2044 26,1| society if its endeavours are pleasing to your Highness!" ~"Have
2045 16,1| least. So you see we have plenty of time before us. Only
2046 3,2| we shall be in a very sad plight." ~"I have some advice to
2047 11,1| intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De Witt
2048 27,1| political intrigues, they now plotted together for my ruin. On
2049 8,2| eagerness of a tiger, to plunge his hand into the soft ground. ~
2050 21,1| They searched not only the pockets of Cornelius, but even his
2051 12,1| publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and divine, had granted
2052 19,1| her heart like drops of poison, she did not dream, but
2053 9,1| down as an axiom of high policy, "It is the dead only who
2054 7,3| Spennen," answered Cornelius, politely, to his judge, "and you
2055 31,1| and Amsterdam, and all the politicians and selfish worldlings at
2056 31,1| either of the triumph of Pompey or of Caesar; neither of
2057 1,1| effect by the aid of the poniard. ~How rarely does it happen
2058 2,1| burghers, "we should have a pop at you, too." ~"Of course
2059 5,1| foliage of a curtain of poplar trees, the whole habitation
2060 31,1| spreading elms, graceful poplars, and, more than all, upon
2061 11,1| Tarquin the Elder, who grew poppies at Gabii, and the Great
2062 2,2| our lives and regain our popularity." ~"But what have you done
2063 7,2| town and the sailors of the port should come and tear out
2064 3,3| talking from the window of the porter's lodge with a dragoon,
2065 25,2| you draw Master Boxtel's portrait feature by feature." ~"And
2066 5,2| time when the Dutch and the Portuguese, rivalling each other in
2067 5,3| possessed of the spirit of Porus, who, on being conquered
2068 24,2| travel full speed without any possibility of injury to the tulip. ~
2069 24,2| could not bear travelling post-haste. ~But Boxtel, fearing that
2070 8,1| want of authenticity, and posted his letter. ~Never did a
2071 32,1| soldier who was acting as postilion. ~"Oh, thank you, Sir, for
2072 5,3| the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with everything
2073 9,1| he should be ordered to pounce upon him. ~The young girl,
2074 29,2| concentrated. He then began to pour forth such a torrent of
2075 5,3| success that his hands dropped powerless, his knees trembled, and
2076 28,1| mad. ~He then felt his own powerlessness. He asked himself whether
2077 6,2| idea without believing it practicable, but such is the power of
2078 29,1| protocol of the violence practiced by the prisoner against
2079 11,2| worshipped Him in His works, and praised Him in His decrees. I am
2080 22,1| chance. Ah!" ~The prisoner's prayer ended in a sigh of ecstasy;
2081 7,3| very moment the soldiers, preceded by a magistrate, entered
2082 3,2| ferocious triumph rife in the precincts of the prison simultaneously
2083 15,2| alone. ~Rosa had fled so precipitately, that she completely forgot
2084 1,3| troopers obeyed orders with a precision which immediately caused
2085 26,1| French; the flower which I prefer to all others is, of course,
2086 16,1| would have appeared to him preferable to any other habitation
2087 19,1| Rosa understood Cornelius's preference of the tulip to herself,
2088 17,2| it was after all only a prelude to greater anxieties. ~The
2089 29,1| murder, for a long time premeditated, with open rebellion. ~Whilst
2090 6,1| offend God." ~From that premise the school of tulip-fanciers,
2091 11,3| quietly submitted to all those preparations which these men were obliged
2092 10,2| acting up to the doctor's prescription, Rosa, after having satisfied
2093 5,3| according to the most approved prescriptions, and given to his hotbeds
2094 14,2| of the Governor; he will presently come up." ~"The instructions
2095 29,2| whenever an opportunity presents itself. In truth, my friend,
2096 7,1| placed it in one of the presses, supposed to contain papers
2097 1,1| Stadtholder. But God laughs at the presumption of man, who wants to raise
2098 6,1| there was at his very door a pretender whose throne he had usurped. ~
2099 27,1| a young damsel who also pretends to have found it." ~Boxtel,
2100 14,2| said, "you make no great pretensions, Mynheer Cornelius." ~Cornelius
2101 15,1| set your arm, or with the price that I asked you?" said
2102 31,1| pleasant city, which justly prides itself on being one of the
2103 4,3| John and Cornelius, two princes as noble as he in the eyes
2104 1,1| flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people
2105 12,1| Seven Provinces had seven prisons, one for each, and that
2106 8,2| all the drawers, even that privileged one where the parcel which
2107 13,2| administered in better style by any prize-fighter on the other side of the
2108 31,1| worship. ~Haarlem offered prizes for tulip-growing; and this
2109 21,2| abridged the term of his probation. ~"She? Well, my daughter,
2110 31,2| loud and audible tone, will proclaim him to be the discoverer
2111 24,2| not arrive early enough, procured at Delft a box, lined all
2112 33,1| Haarlem. ~"The history of its production, and the name of its grower,
2113 7,1| old, interdicted to the profane uninitiated. ~Never had
2114 3,3| hand which John de Witt proffered to her, and kissed it with
2115 10,1| never entered his mind of profiting by this accident; he had
2116 9,1| blooming face, surrounded by a profusion of rich wavy golden locks,
2117 33,1| conditions required by the programme of the Horticultural Society
2118 7,1| Society of Haarlem. He had progressed from hazel-nut shade to
2119 19,1| she did not despair of progressing quickly enough to write,
2120 6,1| the owner himself every progressive development of the flower,
2121 19,1| was still a luminous and prominent object in his mind; but
2122 7,2| melancholy about them which promises to produce a flower of the
2123 25,1| entirely at her disposal, promising to keep pace with the horse
2124 4,2| people must certainly be prompted by a most violent indignation,"
2125 33,1| black tulip belongs." ~In pronouncing these words, the Prince,
2126 14,2| league distant from Leyden, properly speaking a kind of large
2127 16,1| that I may judge of its properties in a dry and in a moist
2128 5,3| jealous foreboding, became the prophet of his own misfortune. And,
2129 21,1| alone; Cornelius tried to propitiate him, but Gryphus growled,
2130 19,2| operation. The weather was propitious; the air, though still damp,
2131 16,1| swelled to the gigantic proportions of a criminal of the first
2132 13,1| Thus to the very first proposals which Boxtel made to Gryphus
2133 1,1| without licentiousness, and prosperity without the waste of superfluity;
2134 22,1| Well, all is going on prosperously. This night, without any
2135 19,2| grief, and pale from utter prostration, stretch out his head through
2136 25,1| serve her as a guide and a protector. ~And in fact she had not
2137 11,1| Louvois. And lastly, I vow and protest that I do not understand
2138 16,2| first buds of the leaves protruding. And yours Rosa?" ~"Oh,
2139 19,1| merchant-bourgeoisie, who were prouder of their richly emblazoned
2140 11,1| politics and at tulips, which proves him to belong to the class
2141 1,1| that reason, when such a providential concurrence of circumstances
2142 31,1| superiority to all other provincial cities in the number and
2143 29,1| circumstances which had provoked and might justify his offence,
2144 3,1| and sickly body, and the prowling ways of the stranger, were
2145 12,1| generosity to the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet,
2146 13,2| pardon of the Stadtholder publicly read out, - then Boxtel
2147 28,1| and almost irresistible pugnacity. Well, I shall get at the
2148 6,1| to get off, they began to pull to and fro, and to wheel
2149 17,2| a contrivance, a sort of pulley, by means of which he was
2150 33,1| raised him, and examined his pulse and his heart, he was quite
2151 13,1| mounted on the stone of the pump the better to see and be
2152 27,2| commit a crime. I will not punish you; but the real evil-doer
2153 16,1| with an angry countenance; punishing him for what he called his
2154 31,1| pleasure of admiring the very purest ideal of tulips in full
2155 33,1| queen of excellence and purity. And yet, the more he ascertained
2156 24,1| our love? Rosa, we must pursue, we must overtake him!" ~"
2157 32,1| which the scene occurred; it pursued its way slowly, on account
2158 1,3| silence of the dragoons to pusillanimity, and advanced one step towards
2159 28,2| of doing something that puts you in a rage. ~Gryphus
2160 27,2| returned to his inn, rather puzzled and uneasy, tormented by
2161 19,1| of her moral and physical qualities. ~Cornelius was a scholar,
2162 16,2| him, handful by handful, a quantity of soil from that part of
2163 21,1| greatest or most beautiful queens whom the world has seen. ~
2164 3,1| furibund petitioners a very queer reception." ~The nervous
2165 30,1| would talk without being questioned. ~That obliging person would
2166 31,2| moment. ~Now and then Boxtel quickened his step to rub elbows for
2167 5,3| and that this flower grew quicker, and had a better colouring,
2168 23,1| bulb, that is to say, the quintessence of all the hopes of the
2169 3,2| will order Tilly's horse to quit their post?" ~"Why not?"
2170 9,1| taking up his cresset, he quitted the cell. ~ ~
2171 3,1| reception." ~The nervous quiver of his hand, which moved
2172 29,1| white with rage, and with quivering lips, as his brain began
2173 11,1| Conde have been felicitously quoted as examples." ~The upshot
2174 31,2| violent contrast. ~This hero, radiant with rapturous joy, who
2175 8,1| that caused the fever which raged in the heart of Isaac Boxtel. ~
2176 28,2| with fright, but he soon rallied, and said, putting his hand
2177 2,1| Captain Tilly, who served as a rampart to them. This noise, which
2178 26,2| time that this sweet voice rang in his ears. ~An officer
2179 16,2| astonishment what a vast range of subjects a conversation
2180 13,1| advanced to the very foremost rank, unguibus et rostro, - that
2181 31,2| This hero, radiant with rapturous joy, who had the distinguished
2182 5,1| mortal. ~This happy mortal, rara avis, was Dr. van Baerle,
2183 11,1| contemplation of one of the rarest of his bulbs, John de Witt'
2184 29,2| fortress of Loewestein. And the rascal talked to me of twelve hours!" ~"
2185 1,3| brother John, who is as rascally a traitor as himself, will
2186 16,1| than even the cat or the rat." ~"What animal?" ~"Man.
2187 28,2| and the most miserable rations one can imagine. But that'
2188 24,2| prisoner began really to rave. ~"Well, then, yes," said
2189 2,3| pencil squeezed from the raw flesh. ~A cold sweat stood
2190 31,2| the old town of Haarlem re-echo with their tremendous cheers. ~ ~
2191 1,1| the Perpetual Edict, and re-establishing the office of Stadtholder
2192 32,1| Notwithstanding the little readiness which his companion had
2193 12,1| beautiful dream will begin to be realised." ~Only there was still
2194 5,2| hundred sailors; when he realized that the result of all this
2195 20,2| everything changes in the realm of nature; the flowers of
2196 17,2| robbed of her young by the reaper. ~In fact, Gryphus was beginning
2197 4,2| shock, occasioned by the rearing of the horses. The whole
2198 11,1| this deposit was not to be reasonably entertained, as he could
2199 11,1| The upshot of all these reasonings was, that his Highness the
2200 3,1| He evidently had his good reasons for not making himself known,
2201 26,2| Horticultural Society. ~Rosa, reassured by this sort of encouragement
2202 15,2| the presence of Rosa had reawakened in his heart. ~He waited
2203 17,2| here, you see, you are rebelling." ~"Leave me my tulip,"
2204 20,2| openings of the grating for the receding hand of Rosa, he said, - ~"
2205 3,1| petitioners a very queer reception." ~The nervous quiver of
2206 11,2| maid, had slipped into the recess of the door, with a handkerchief
2207 30,1| calculated to stir up in the recesses of his heart the clemency
2208 29,1| attention to this delightful recital, and then said, - ~"Ah!
2209 1,2| stretched on the rack, he recited with a firm voice, and scanning
2210 14,1| and when Boxtel's servant reclaimed them with culinary intentions,
2211 23,2| one else could put in a reclamation. ~Should any one then reclaim
2212 26,2| walk ahead, but, suddenly recollecting himself he said - ~"Go before
2213 27,1| dangerous prisoner, and recommended by the Prince to the especial
2214 1,2| He too received a noble recompense for his devotedness to the
2215 33,2| was hard for him to become reconciled to his son-in-law. He had
2216 6,1| tulip-growers of Europe, he had recourse to stratagem, and, to gratify
2217 9,1| stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of
2218 6,2| gladly would Van Baerle have redeemed that precious sap with his
2219 6,2| planting and cross-breeding to reduce the tulips which he had
2220 2,2| prevented the defeats of Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg;
2221 11,2| occupies my mind, however has reference to the glory of the Almighty,
2222 31,2| unlettered and unrefined, to the refinement and culture of its illustrious
2223 6,2| placed between the endless reflections of two water-mirrors those
2224 5,2| man who likes to use his reflective powers even while his fellow
2225 1,1| they generally used French refugees for the mouthpiece of their
2226 13,2| might be disappointed, and refuse to pay on going out. ~Boxtel
2227 10,2| quick; there, my father is regaining his breath, one minute more,
2228 28,2| starving me to advantage, and regale myself with fish." ~Gryphus
2229 31,2| what had theretofore been regarded as impossible, - a completely
2230 8,2| yet, on looking over the register of seeds and bulbs, which
2231 29,1| jailer's lodge, where he was registered as leaving Loewestein, then
2232 29,2| which led to the Esplanade, regretting that he had not asked the
2233 2,1| they would send us some reinforcement." ~In the meanwhile, John
2234 4,2| who, trying to seize the reins of the horses, had been
2235 14,2| and, instead of having to relate the series of exciting events
2236 11,1| nationality and in their secret relations with their French enemy. ~ ~
2237 28,1| that his vigilance would relax, even for one moment. Moreover,
2238 31,1| to time relieved by fresh relays, - even as the bearers of
2239 14,1| some eggs from them, he released the female, which, leaving
2240 4,3| And the young Prince, the relentless rival of the Great King,
2241 11,3| and have preserved it as a relic. To-day I brought it to
2242 10,1| else but of administering relief to the sufferer, however
2243 22,2| overflowed with gratitude and religious fervour. ~"Oh Thou art always
2244 28,2| excellent bread, which I relish more than the best cake;
2245 11,2| during which the prisoner was remanded to his cell. ~There the
2246 17,2| flowing day passed without any remarkable incident. Gryphus made his
2247 13,1| to the worthy spectators remarks such as the following: - ~"
2248 9,1| fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs
2249 24,1| great, but it may perhaps be remedied. Rosa, we know the thief!" ~"
2250 20,1| there might not be some remedy to restore you to health." ~"
2251 25,1| or with the resources for remedying it. ~She went to her room,
2252 17,2| his trembling fingers, the remnants of that bulb on which he
2253 13,1| which was to be so well remunerated, had directed the tempter
2254 1,2| into exile, where he will renew his intrigues with France,
2255 23,1| his word, being that of a renowned tulip-grower, would any
2256 8,2| a house which was being repaired, and against which a very
2257 5,2| gave directions for some repairs, which he wished to have
2258 1,2| signature, was fuming at the repeal of the Perpetual Edict -
2259 1,1| inspired by Louis XIV., in repealing the Perpetual Edict, and
2260 18,1| yes! but too late." ~"This repentance is not of himself." ~"And
2261 18,1| deceive me, perhaps." ~"No, he repents." ~"Ah yes! but too late." ~"
2262 20,1| imagine that water could replace the earth?" ~"You may make
2263 3,2| and, without making any reply, followed in the steps of
2264 20,1| the sort." ~Rosa, without replying to this excuse of the prisoner,
2265 5,2| rich in his well-earned repose, his twenty-eight years,
2266 6,2| intended for white, the pure representation of the limpid element. ~
2267 6,1| and those of Dort were now represented by Cornelius van Baerle,
2268 25,2| chalice, and his two limp arms representing the double leaf of the tulip;
2269 19,1| his hand on his heart, to repress as it were its violent palpitation,
2270 29,2| memory is perpetuated." ~Repressing his melancholy thoughts,
2271 13,1| saved from death. ~This reprieve suggested to the worthy
2272 5,3| sort of fool who tried to reproduce and disfigure on canvas
2273 5,2| like his somewhat austere republicanism, but they were proud of
2274 11,3| by the Haarlem Society, requesting that she may be paid the
2275 10,1| sleeve. ~"Is this what you require, sir?" asked Rosa. ~"Yes,
2276 5,3| at hand; in short, every requirement to insure not only success
2277 3,3| state, to guard against a rescue or a revolt. ~The people
2278 25,2| double leaf of the tulip; the resemblance was rendered complete by
2279 25,2| was a spare little man, resembling the stem of a flower, his
2280 31,2| pavement of the Buytenhof, reserving the right at a future day
2281 5,2| but his family had been resident there for centuries. ~Cornelius,
2282 9,2| and at last submitted with resignation to all the sufferings which
2283 3,1| which, however, offered no resistance to the sovereign people -
2284 29,2| followed the officer with a resolute heart, and carrying his
2285 30,1| gallop of a horse was heard resounding in the vaulted archway. ~"
2286 11,3| condition of her marrying a respectable young man of about my age,
2287 13,1| disappointed was a certain respectably dressed burgher, who from
2288 31,1| The people, even among the respected republicans of the Seven
2289 11,1| his pretended indifference respecting this deposit was not to
2290 31,2| nor in the young dandies, resplendent in their Sunday clothes,
2291 3,1| any resolution on my own responsibility." ~"The order! we want the
2292 3,1| the vulture, - serenity or restlessness. ~And indeed the sallow
2293 29,2| to find it? ~In truth, to restrain his tears at such a crisis
2294 4,2| very forbidding manner, restrained the glance of gloomy malice
2295 1,2| taking with him into the retirement of private life the hatred
2296 3,2| the young man quietly retorted. ~"Because doing so would
2297 4,3| locked, they were obliged to retrace their steps." ~"Gate! gate!"
2298 28,2| soul,~As thither our soul returns, --~Our soul, that is to
2299 27,2| harboured a secret without revealing it to me? No, no, your Highness,
2300 11,3| the Bible, and kissed it reverently. ~"With what shall I write?"
2301 20,2| the different swains in review who send them to me, I am
2302 11,1| mischievous, because it revives the contest which it is
2303 3,2| order, as long as it is not revoked, enjoins them to stop before
2304 3,3| guard against a rescue or a revolt. ~The people rushed into
2305 9,1| go into exile, or what in revolutionary times is meant instead by
2306 28,1| letter. ~Then Cornelius revolved in his mind all those stratagems
2307 2,2| Rees, Orsay, Wesel, and Rheinberg; the Rhine would not have
2308 31,1| Systens, dressed in his richest habiliments. ~The worthy
2309 19,1| who were prouder of their richly emblazoned shop signs than
2310 19,2| think we shall soon get rid of our scholar." ~Rosa was
2311 5,2| seen the "Saint Michael," riddled and shattered by the Dutch
2312 29,1| the slopes of a mountain ridge. ~A protocol of the violence
2313 1,1| the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts' content,
2314 16,2| driving in your own coach, riding your own horse, will you
2315 3,2| hatred and ferocious triumph rife in the precincts of the
2316 7,2| afraid lest on the day of a riot the shopkeepers of the town
2317 1,3| keeping order, gave to the rioters the example of seditious
2318 1,3| not only the disorderly riotous mass of the populace, but
2319 4,3| hands; for this fellow had ripped open Cornelius and disembowelled
2320 4,3| brains. John de Witt fell to rise no more. ~On this, every
2321 2,2| the expiring flame which rises from the half-extinguished
2322 4,1| head from the window, and risking all for gaining all; "my
2323 5,2| Dutch and the Portuguese, rivalling each other in this branch
2324 25,1| many canals, rivers, and rivulets intersecting the country,
2325 4,2| proceed, and its stream moved roaring and rapid, as if lashed
2326 8,2| the hazel-nut, and the roasted-coffee coloured tulip; but of the
2327 8,1| party at the Hague were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh
2328 17,2| mean and spiteful fellow to rob a poor prisoner of his only
2329 13,1| value of the object of the robbery, which was to be so well
2330 31,1| years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed at the festival
2331 21,2| straight?" ~"Straight as a rocket," said Rosa. ~"How high?" ~"
2332 2,1| surf dashing against the rocks, now reached the ears of
2333 1,3| this moment, Count Tilly rode forth towards them single-handed,
2334 1,1| brothers De Witt, those Romans of Holland, spurning to
2335 28,1| file would get dull, the rope would break, or my wings
2336 13,1| foremost rank, unguibus et rostro, - that is to say, coaxing
2337 22,1| fresh cheek, your soft, rosy cheek. Oh, Rosa, give it
2338 6,2| Boxtel allowed his bulbs to rot in the pits, his seedlings
2339 20,1| approached the border by a long round-about; at last, having reached
2340 17,1| come herself, and use no roundabout ways. She would at once
2341 5,1| by the shortest possible routes through the windings of
2342 28,1| have at least a nice little row. ~ ~
2343 6,2| perceived the symmetrical rows of his tulips to be completely
2344 6,1| noble, that princely, that royal bed, which contained not
2345 31,2| Boxtel quickened his step to rub elbows for a moment with
2346 6,1| perhaps Shakespeare and Rubens, have equalled in point
2347 33,2| tulips, the old man made the rudest keeper of flowers in the
2348 20,1| and, quite abashed and rueful, walked back to the door,
2349 24,1| alone," said Cornelius, ruefully. ~"One minute only, to instruct
2350 29,1| in the madman's hand, the ruffian might fling it at him, Cornelius
2351 1,2| by his base mind and his ruffianly imagination, the attempts
2352 26,1| blunder; it may be I have ruined Cornelius, the tulip, and
2353 27,1| she formed the plan of ruining me by appropriating to herself
2354 7,2| thrill of excitement when the rumour spreads to the four quarters
2355 7,2| bell of his cabinet was rung much more violently than
2356 7,2| confounded Craeke! thus to rush into my dry-room; let us
2357 5,1| edged with willows and rushes, and abounding in luxurious
2358 15,2| staircase the light step and the rustle of the flowing dress of
2359 16,1| this unfortunate bulb as sacrificed to my selfishness. However,
2360 2,2| love my country, and what sacrifices I have offered to make for
2361 4,3| stirrup, vaulted into the saddle of the led horse, and, setting
2362 11,2| rather of surprise than sadness. ~After the sentence was
2363 5,2| hundred and thirty-nine sail, with which the famous admiral
2364 29,2| Horace bestows upon the sailor who first visited the terrifying
2365 22,1| nor by stratagem, but as Saint-Preux's was to meet the lips of
2366 3,2| triumph. They immediately sallied forth, with lowered arms
2367 1,3| horsemen, indeed, exercised a salutary check on these civic warriors;
2368 21,1| after the first exchange of salutations, she retired a step, looking
2369 33,1| to the foot of the throne saluting alternately the Prince and
2370 6,1| of mankind whose hopes of salvation were not centred upon the
2371 7,1| this pantheon, this sanctum sanctorum of the tulip-fancier, was,
2372 8,2| dry-room. ~On reaching this sanctuary of the florist he stopped,
2373 7,1| dry-room, this pantheon, this sanctum sanctorum of the tulip-fancier,
2374 16,2| soil slightly mixed with sand, rather moist than dry without
2375 5,2| sinking of the "Earl of Sandwich," and the death by fire
2376 3,2| hideously distorted with satanic glee: this man was the surgeon
2377 8,1| a result which would satisfy not only his vengeance,
2378 7,1| have lost one moment in satisfying his curiosity and feasting
2379 6,1| the modest and inoffensive savant. ~Engaging, heart and soul,
2380 18,1| show of anger sometimes saves an answer. I shrugged my
2381 14,1| first lived on his little savings, and then on his master'
2382 4,1| pale. ~"Oh, Monseigneur, he says a thing which would be very
2383 15,1| moment the two pigeons, scared by the sight and especially
2384 1,2| of enemies, and the fresh scars of wounds inflicted by assassins,
2385 6,2| earth which his neighbour scattered upon his cherished bulbs. ~
2386 32,1| principal part." ~"Oh, the sweet scents! oh, the beautiful colours!"
2387 2,2| Tromp past the shoals of the Scheldt to Antwerp." ~"With the
2388 23,2| theft. ~This was a deep-laid scheme, and quite worthy of its
2389 6,1| the ban, and condemn as schismatics and heretics and deserving
2390 6,1| the most exclusive of all schools, worked out the following
2391 18,1| only knew how his friend scolded him!" ~"Ah, Master Jacob;
2392 2,3| asked, with a look on the scorched and bruised hands of the
2393 31,1| heavy sea air, and their scorching heat. ~On this account all
2394 20,1| yourself comfortable on that score," said Rosa, smiling; "your
2395 4,3| came the most dastardly scoundrels of all, who not having dared
2396 5,1| tidy, even more cleanly scoured and more carefully waxed
2397 21,1| Gryphus looked at him with a scowl. ~"And how is the dog, and
2398 9,1| cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at
2399 20,1| Van Baerle heard some one scratch at the grated little window,
2400 24,1| Cornelius, Cornelius!" she screamed, gasping for breath. ~"Good
2401 33,2| loved, a condition which was scrupulously fulfilled, although, or
2402 30,1| Rosa, and fixing on her his scrutinising, and at the same time impenetrable
2403 12,1| parchment, sealed with a huge seal of red wax. ~And the same
2404 7,3| The magistrate broke the seals, tore off the envelope,
2405 27,1| hesitated; the fixed and searching glance of the proud eye
2406 19,1| 1~But poor Rosa, in her secluded chamber, could not have
2407 28,1| worse torments than those of seclusion and separation? Did this
2408 23,1| grew in the most profound secrecy, and as, moreover, his word,
2409 7,3| seditious papers which you secrete in your house." ~"The seditious
2410 8,1| Van Baerle so carefully secreting the parcel in the drawer
2411 13,1| Buytenhof at daybreak, to secure a better place; but he,
2412 31,1| were filled with war and sedition, - Haarlem, having enjoyed
2413 6,1| the first year, its pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the
2414 14,2| Loewestein, and Rotterdam, seeking variety, doubtless, in the
2415 4,2| companions, who, trying to seize the reins of the horses,
2416 26,1| just as Homer's Minerva seizes Achilles by the hair at
2417 1,1| overthrow a kingdom, it seldom happens that he does not
2418 5,2| took it into his head to select for himself, from all the
2419 29,1| heroic self-possession, and selecting the exact spot for every
2420 18,2| feel as if part of my own self had been paralyzed." ~"Now
2421 29,2| But, sir, it was only in self-defence." ~"Never mind," said the
2422 28,1| in a manner painful to my self-respect, or to my love, or even
2423 16,1| bulb as sacrificed to my selfishness. However, the sun sometimes
2424 4,3| then went about the town selling small slices of the bodies
2425 21,1| have preferred her to Queen Semiramis, to Queen Cleopatra, to
2426 22,2| he said, "here is Heaven sending a soul to my flower." ~And
2427 31,2| fail to make as much of a sensation as the Stadtholder himself. ~
2428 12,1| Van Baerle began to be sensible to what was going on around
2429 1,2| charge; at the same time sentencing Cornelius to be deposed
2430 28,2| exasperated by the calm and sententious tone of Cornelius, brandished
2431 2,3| Baerle's mind, and every sentiment in his heart? You ask whether
2432 28,1| treble strength, and the sentinels ten times more watchful?
2433 21,2| understand that you must not separate from it for an instant." ~"
2434 31,1| On this account all the serene souls who loved the earth
2435 29,1| number, at a sign from a sergeant, very cleverly lodged a
2436 14,2| of having to relate the series of exciting events which
2437 13,2| of the hyena, and of the serpent glistened in his eyes, and
2438 13,2| us, wears a head-dress of serpents. ~ ~
2439 2,2| he now excelled, not in services rendered to the country,
2440 4,3| lose the opportunity of serving the Grand Pensionary in
2441 25,2| words seemed to be an "Open Sesame," for she soon found herself
2442 25,2| Swan Inn, and you can then settle matters with him; as for
2443 29,1| Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts With Gryphus. ~
2444 1,3| lovely young girl, of about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in
2445 6,1| took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered
2446 4,2| anything; but they felt a severe shock, occasioned by the
2447 1,1| stab him, in which he was severely although not mortally wounded. ~
2448 12,1| expression of Madame de Sevigne, who wrote about the same
2449 31,1| upon her pleasant walks, shaded by the lovely arches of
2450 3,2| After this, fluctuating shadows in tumultuous confusion
2451 11,3| to him a book, bound in shagreen, which bore the initials
2452 24,1| tenfold by his rage, began to shake the door with a great noise,
2453 7,2| dry-room was so violently shaken, and opened in such a brusque
2454 6,1| Creator, except perhaps Shakespeare and Rubens, have equalled
2455 23,1| keeping, and who, as the sham Jacob had it, was in league
2456 9,2| On it were suspended two shapeless trunks, which indeed were
2457 16,1| have seen, was far from sharing the kindly feeling of his
2458 1,2| they hoped to manage like a sharp-edged and at the same time crushing
2459 5,2| Saint Michael," riddled and shattered by the Dutch broadside,
2460 9,2| beam of light which morning sheds on the earth as a white
2461 5,1| vegetation, whereon flocks of fat sheep browsed in peaceful sleepiness.
2462 21,1| They then searched the sheets, the mattress, and the straw
2463 26,2| took a book down from the shelf, and made Van Systens a
2464 6,2| in the midst of which a shell has fallen. ~He ran up to
2465 7,1| in winter. They need the shelter of the house, the soft bed
2466 17,2| old man, "we know well the shifts of prisoners." ~"But I vow
2467 5,2| destruction - after twenty ships had been blown to pieces,
2468 10,1| coat, and to tuck up his shirt sleeve. ~"Is this what you
2469 29,2| that Cornelius felt almost shocked. ~All at once, Gryphus,
2470 17,2| to atoms under his heavy shoe. ~Van Baerle saw the work
2471 7,2| on the day of a riot the shopkeepers of the town and the sailors
2472 31,1| and the splendour of their shops and markets, Haarlem's claims
2473 12,1| who left as free men. ~The shorter the way from the door of
2474 5,1| skilful guidance by the shortest possible routes through
2475 2,1| his own beloved militia, shouted most lustily, - ~"Hurrah
2476 1,3| example of seditious cries, shouting, - ~"Hurrah for Orange!
2477 11,1| public tranquillity, and shows a certain, or rather a complete,
2478 8,1| the chance, he at first shrank with horror from the idea
2479 4,3| fallen hero, and tear off a shred from his garments. ~And
2480 8,1| were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh torn from the corpses
2481 2,3| hand of his brother, who shuddered at the touch of his linen
2482 5,2| fellow citizens by completely shunning the pursuit of politics,
2483 3,1| physiognomy, the thin and sickly body, and the prowling ways
2484 33,1| their way through the crowd, sidled up to the black tulip, towards
2485 6,2| at work. ~He beheld him sifting his seeds, and soaking them
2486 9,2| by the coarse brush of a sign-painter: - ~"Here are hanging the
2487 27,2| That of the Stadtholder signified, "Be quiet, and wait." ~
2488 26,2| decided tone, - ~"This cannot signify anything to the members
2489 8,1| Boxtel contented himself with signifying his approval of the zeal
2490 3,2| doing so would simply be signing the death warrant of Cornelius
2491 27,1| admired the flower, and silently resumed his seat in the
2492 22,2| written it with such beautiful simplicity. You will give to the committee
2493 11,1| magistracy of the Hague if they simplified for him the government of
2494 16,1| one, but rather a sort of sinecure, given after a long period
2495 5,2| admiral set out to contend singlehanded against the combined forces
2496 18,2| more." ~Rosa felt her heart sink within her, and her eyes
2497 30,1| the tulip, like two orphan sisters, had been left by Prince
2498 14,1| it was for eight slivers (sixpence English) a day; and, after
2499 14,1| of Van Baerle. ~On the sixteenth day, at last, she came back
2500 11,2| instrument of steel, which in sixty minutes will put an end