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But I am forgetting. My business at this time was to make love to Katrin, so that I might banish the ill impression which Helene had formed concerning that pleasant, harmless little Christian's Elsa over there. I never heard anything so foolish in my life. But, then, what women will think and say passes the imagination of man. Michael Texel indeed!
On Christmas day of 1656, three vessels containing one hundred and sixty emigrants, sailed from the Texel. A wintry storm soon separated them. The principal ship, the Prince Maurice, which had the largest number of passengers, after a long voyage, was wrecked on the South coast of Long island, near Fire island inlet, in the neighborhood of the present town of Islip.
'It rests with Captain Venables, said he gloomily. 'If we let him go what becomes of our cave? 'Is there no way of insuring his silence? I asked. 'Well, we might ship him to the Plantations, said the mate. 'We could take him to the Texel with us, and get Captain Donders or some other to give him a lift across the western ocean.
Soon afterwards, however, the wind becoming contrary, they were unable to double the Helder or the Texel, and on Tuesday, the 1st of April, having abandoned their original intention, they dropped down towards Zealand, and entered the broad mouth of the river Meuse.
At the end of October they left Java, and putting into the Cape, waited there for the homeward-bound fleet, in company with which twenty-five sail in all, Dutch and English after passing round to the north of Shetland, they anchored in the Texel in July of the following year.
And you, Hugo Gottfried, like a great oaf, thinking all the time how innocent and sweet and oh, I have no patience with you! to neglect and think nothing of of Katrin Texel, and and then to go gazing and gaping after a thing like that!" And I declare there were tears in the Little Playmate's eyes.
With his two faithful ships, Duncan made for the Texel, swearing that if the Dutch came out he would go down with colors flying. Fortunately he was rejoined before that event by the rest of his squadron, the mutinous ships having been either retaken by the officers or voluntarily surrendered by the men.
Men will talk The brig goes about on the wrong tack. At daylight the next morning we were off the Texel, and could see the low sand-hills; but we had scarcely made them out, when the fog in the offing cleared up, and we made a strange vessel. The hands were turned up, and all sail made in chase.
Their stay at Amsterdam was marked by extraordinary pomp; the company of the Theatre Francais was brought thither from Paris, and Talma appeared as Bayard and as Orosmane. The court made a stay of a fortnight, the Emperor making short excursions to Helder, one of his creations, to Texel, and to the dykes of Medemblik, which protect the country against the Zuyder Zee.
Through all his long hours of loneliness he kept on gallantly signalling away to an imaginary fleet, and the Dutchmen in the Texel little dreamed that they were held in check by a deserted admiral upon a desolate sea.
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