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'Tell Gerard Douw, said the unknown, without altering his attitude in the smallest degree, 'that Mynher Vanderhauseny of Rotterdam, desires to speak with him to-morrow evening at this hour, and, if he please, in this room, upon matters of weight that is all. Good-night.
The chiefs would make long speeches about the big bull, the Wabash, and the Great Spirit, to which the others would listen very attentively, smoke their pipes, and grunt yah, mynher, whereat the poor savages were wondrously delighted.
'Mynher Vanderhausen, said Gerard Douw within himself, as the appointed hour approached, 'Mynher Vanderhausen of Rotterdam! I never heard of the man till yesterday. What can he want of me? A portrait, perhaps, to be painted; or a younger son or a poor relation to be apprenticed; or a collection to be valued; or pshaw I there's no one in Rotterdam to leave me a legacy.
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.
"Is it your watch?" "Yaw, Mynher," replied Big Adam, rolling out of his kaross. "Well, then, you keep it so well, that you will have no tobacco next time it is served out." "Gentlemen all awake and keep watch, so I go to sleep a little," replied Adam, getting up on his legs. "Look to your fires, sir," replied the Major, walking to his wagon.
The Indians were much given to long talks, and the Dutch to long silence; in this particular, therefore, they accommodated each other completely. The chiefs would make long speeches about the big bull, the Wabash, and the Great Spirit, to which the others would listen very attentively, smoke their pipes, and grunt 'yah, mynher', whereat the poor savages were wondrously delighted.
It was then raised by the men who surrounded it, and speedily carried towards the city, and before it had proceeded many yards the darkness concealed it from the view of the Dutch charioteer. In the inside of the vehicle he found a purse, whose contents more than thrice paid the hire of the carriage and man. He saw and could tell nothing more of Mynher Vanderhausen and his beautiful lady.
The interest of the money, which was to have been demanded in quarterly sums, lay unclaimed in his hands. He began to grow extremely uneasy. Mynher Vanderhausen's direction in Rotterdam he was fully possessed of.
'The hour is close at hand, then, said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as a full-grown orange. 'Mynher Vanderhausen, from Rotterdam is it not so? 'Such was the name. 'And an elderly man, richly clad? continued Douw.
Gerard Douw knew nothing of the attachment which had sprung up between his pupil and his niece; and even if he had, it is doubtful whether he would have regarded its existence as any serious obstruction to the wishes of Mynher Vanderhausen.
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