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"Yes, I could be happy in 'a boven huis, with my little stairway and hall quite to myself." But when I had shown her my favorite bit of Amsterdam, she became unfaithful to the Keizergracht, and its picturesque fellows. To reach this bit, we turned from the roar of a noisy street, and were at once in the calm of a monastic cloister.
That distinction might do for the townspeople; as for them, they would rather live in a black and brown house in the Keizergracht, with a crane and pulley in one of the gables, and white frames on the windows, than in this dull street of wealth and fashion. "Even half a house, with a whole door of my own, like most middle-class Dutch houses, would be nicer," said Nell.
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