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The visitor waved his hand slightly, as, if in acknowledgment of the courtesy, but remained standing. 'I have the honour to see Mynher Vanderhausen, of Rotterdam? said Gerard Douw. 'The same, was the laconic reply of his visitant. 'I understand your worship desires to speak with me, continued Douw, 'and I am here by appointment to wait your commands.
The next afternoon we weighed, and the following morning anchored, the water being deep, close in near Tykale Inlet, on the south-west side of Rottee, for observations,* and for the purpose of better determining the position of Pulo Douw, and the other islands in its neighbourhood. An extensive coral flat fronts this part of Rottee, connecting it with the small islands lying off it.
The best thing I could say was, "Nonsense!" She smiled wearily. "So I might have known you would say. But it is the truth, none the less." "You must be crazy!" "No, Douw, only very, very wretched!" The poor girl's voice faltered as she spoke, and I thought I saw the glisten of tears in her eyes.
Rembrandt's pupil, Gerhard Douw, introduced domestic scenes; his attention to the minutiae of his art was such that he is said to have worked for three days at a broomstick, in order to represent it with perfect truth. Denner carried accuracy still further; in his portraits of old men every hair in the beard is carefully imitated.
This mystery was a source of deep anxiety and almost of grief to Gerard Douw. There was evidently fraud in the dealing of Vanderhausen with him, though for what purpose committed he could not imagine.
Having thus spoken, he placed a paper in the hands of Gerard, the contents of which expressed an engagement entered into by Gerard Douw, to give to Wilken Vanderhausen, of Rotterdam, in marriage, Rose Velderkaust, and so forth, within one week of the date hereof.
"Oh, no, Douw," she answered, in a clear voice. "If war there must be, why, of course, the side of my people is my side." I was not surprised at this, but I said, "You speak of your people, Daisy but surely mere birth does not count for more than one's whole training afterward, and you have been bred among another class altogether.
We rounded the north-west end of the former at the distance of a mile and a half, passing through some heavy ripplings, apparently an eddy setting to the north-east round the island. Pulo Douw appeared to be thickly inhabited, and was encircled by a reef, except at its North-North-West point, where there is a cliffy projection.
While the painter was employed in reading this covenant, Schalken, as we have stated, entered the studio, and having delivered the box and the valuation of the Jew into the hands of the stranger, he was about to retire, when Vanderhausen called to him to wait; and, presenting the case and the certificate to Gerard Douw, he waited in silence until he had satisfied himself by an inspection of both as to the value of the pledge left in his hands.
Douw died, very rich, in 1674. This extraordinary artist was born at Nuremberg in 1471. His father was a skillful goldsmith, from Hungary, and taught his son the first rudiments of design, intending him for his own profession; but his early and decided inclination for the arts and sciences induced him to permit young Durer to follow the bent of his genius.
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