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The case is a pregnant example of the proceedings employed to destroy the Advocate. The testimony of Nicolas van Berk was at any rate more direct.
Barneveld had also referred, so said van Berk, to the conduct of the Spanish king towards those who had helped him to the kingdom of Portugal. The Burgomaster was unable however to specify the date, year, or month in which the Advocate had held this language.
The case is a pregnant example of the proceedings employed to destroy the Advocate. The testimony of Nicolas van Berk was at any rate more direct.
He had opposed the formation of the West India Company. He had said many years before to Nicolas van Berk that the Provinces had better return to the dominion of Spain. And in general, all his proceedings had tended to put the Provinces into a "blood bath."
Come with us, Berk; there's a capital set here, and I'm going to half a dozen good houses to-night, when we get back. I'll take you with me. Come! you like waltzing, and all that sort of thing, you know." The lad shook himself peevishly; a sullen cloud over his fair, picturesque, boyish face. "Let me alone before the fellows," he muttered impatiently. "I won't come, I tell you." "Soit!"
The idiotic and circumstantial statements, that he had conducted Burgomaster van Berk through a secret staircase of his house into his private study for the purpose of informing him that the only way for the States to get out of the war was to submit themselves once more to their old masters, so often forced upon him by the judges, he contradicted with disdain and disgust.
"Probably she didn't say Barkley," observed Francesca cuttingly; "she would have been sure to commit that sort of solecism." "Why, don't you say Barkley in the States?" "Certainly not; we never call them the States, and with us c-l-e-r-k spells clerk, and B-e-r-k Berk." "How very odd!" remarked Mr. Anstruther.
He never left his own apartments; and no one, save his favorite "little Berk," ever went to him without his desire.
He reached over and caught up a five from a little heap lying loose on a novel of Du Terrail's, and tossed the whole across the room to the boy. "There you are, young one! But don't borrow of any but your own people again, Berk. We don't do that. No, no! no thanks! Shut up all that. If ever you get in a hole, I'll take you out if I can. Good-by will you go to the Lords?
No other offers from the King of Spain or the Archdukes had ever been made to him, said van Berk, than those indicated in this deposition against the Advocate as coming from that statesman. Nor had Barneveld ever spoken to him upon such subjects except on that one occasion.
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