"Oh, Mynheer Cornelius, speak, speak!" exclaimed Rosa, still bathed in tears. "Give me your hand, ...
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victim. And scarcely had Cornelius made his appearance than a fierce groan ran through the whole s...
Society? It was money lent at a thousand per cent., which, as nobody will deny, was a very handsom...
"Oh, sir, sir! here I am!" Cornelius stretched out his arms, and, looking to heaven, uttered a cry...
about it, because, thanks to this nap, I shall be able to come every evening and chat for an hour w...
black tulip, or because this hand was Rosa's? We shall leave this point to the decision of wiser he...
I have no friends in this world." "Then I come back to what I thought before; and the more so as l...
Rosa had scarcely pronounced these consolatory words when a voice was heard from the staircase aski...
Rosa, don't hesitate for one moment to sacrifice me, who am only still living through you, -- me, w...
"You would open the door?" "No, I should allow it to be forced." "But they will kill me!" "Yes, i...
useless to go any farther; we are lost!" "Here they are! here they are!" five hundred voices were ...
The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour Whilst the burghers of the Hague were tearing in pieces the bo...
Boxtel had not the good fortune of being rich, like Van Baerle. He had therefore, with great care a...
Baerle's beds tulips which dazzled him by their beauty, and almost choked him by their perfection! ...
meant, and, on being informed of the cause of all this stir, climbed up to his post of observation,...