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The description served Mevrouw at least, as representative of all English households ever afterwards. When dinner was done and everything cleared up, or rather Julia's part, she took Joost into the garden. "Now," she said in Dutch, "let us come out and talk and look at things."
And if you were clever enough to study the map of New York State, why weren't you clever enough to see that it wouldn't stand you in place of your papers?" "Dot's joost it," said Karl in English; "but you see dot if I haf declairet mine intention of begomming a citizen, it's all the same, don't it?" "By no means, for you seem to have no evidence of the DECLARATION; no papers at all."
Dis is der lasd of dem. Den ve blow der tarn t'ing up. Grab hold dere, Joost. Up mit it, Jan. Vat? No?" "Gott in himmel, Yacob, vait a minutes. My back is proke," protested Joost stubbornly. Von Blitz swore steadily for a minute, but could not move the impassive Boers. He began pacing back and forth, growling to himself. At last he stopped in front of the tired trio.
Poor Joost, he had interpreted her words his own way; she remembered very plainly what he said but two nights ago right and wrong, honourable and dishonourable, wise and unwise, they meant the same thing to different people, the choosing of the higher, the leaving of the lower and he believed no less of her. That belief, surely, was a thing that fought on the side of the angels?
Mijnheer was in his office; he did not think it quite right to come to see her start either; all the same he came to the door to tell the driver to be careful not to go on the grass. Joost came also and looked over his father's shoulder, and Julia, who had been amused at Vrouw Van Heigen, suddenly forgot this little amusement again. Joost left his father. "I will tell the man," he said.
You thought to do so at one time; your intention was to sell it if you had " "Stolen it? Yes, that is quite true, and it would not have mattered then. If I had stolen it I might as well have sold it; one dishonourable act feels lonely without another; it generally begets another to keep itself company." Joost looked at her uncomprehendingly.
"That is of no importance," he answered; "my parents would very soon see you in your true light, and for the rest what does it matter? If you will marry me I " "But Joost, I can't! Don't you feel yourself that I can't? We are not only of two nations that is nothing but we are almost of two races; we are night and day, oil and water, black and white.
But by the time Joost Van Heigen arrived, the Captain was quite amiable again. He had had a quiet morning with nothing to do after the turnip tops were brought in and the knives cleaned, and Johnny had had a long tiring walk home from church in a hot sun and a high wind, which Captain Polkington felt to be a just dispensation of Providence to reward those who stopped at home and cleaned knives.
Julia asked gently, conscious that she was, as always, a long way off from Joost. "I did not wish it," he said, "because I did not foresee it. No one could foresee that it would come, though it always might. It is a novelty, an accident of nature perhaps, but beautiful, wonderful!" "Is it a real novelty?" Julia asked. "Just as much as your first blue daffodil was? Oh, I am glad!
The blunder against which Farnese had in vain warned his master, was the stolid ignorance in which the King and all his counsellors chose to remain of the Holland and Zeeland fleet. For them Warmond and Nassau, and Van der Does and Joost de Moor; did not exist, and it was precisely these gallant sailors, with their intrepid crews, who held the key to the whole situation.
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