more than eighteen inches high; it rose from out of four green leaves, which were as smooth and str...
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himself into the dry-room of Cornelius, through an open window; and the third, to enter Rosa's room...
It was pitiful to see Cornelius, dumb with grief, and pale from utter prostration, stretch out his ...
"And what is it you told me just now?" "I told you, sir, that my tulip has been stolen." "Then you...
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...
never put his hand into the press but to ascertain whether his bulbs were dry, and that he never lo...
I have no friends in this world." "Then I come back to what I thought before; and the more so as l...
"Oh, Mynheer Cornelius, speak, speak!" exclaimed Rosa, still bathed in tears. "Give me your hand, ...
Rosa had scarcely pronounced these consolatory words when a voice was heard from the staircase aski...
victim. And scarcely had Cornelius made his appearance than a fierce groan ran through the whole s...
Rosa, don't hesitate for one moment to sacrifice me, who am only still living through you, -- me, w...
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...
The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour Whilst the burghers of the Hague were tearing in pieces the bo...