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Updated: June 11, 2025
Boats like your little yacht should be in the harbor with such a wind blowing. Even all the fishing smacks were in and they can stand quite a bit more rough weather." "I was calm and assured. I knew that I would see you. I had dreamt of you, of your face and of your name." "Really?" said Elsje, looking straight at me with her frank, innocent eyes. Before this look my heart melted with tenderness.
Elsje was awaiting me at the station and we had a long conversation, in which I for the first time experienced what a blessing it is to be able to give oneself freely, to show oneself as one likes best to be, to hold back nothing for fear of being misunderstood, even though one expresses oneself as always, with but the same limited means, toward a human being having the same limited comprehensive faculty as all men.
Only they would not be as modest as you are; they would not recognize that it is their ignorance. And I am no professor and no Elsje, but I stand sort of between the two and know something of the observations of both, and I know quite positively and see quite plainly that they both mean the same thing and that they require each other's knowledge."
"But you are so strong and you know so much, and there is so much you can do for the world," said Elsje, with her charming pride. "I lack the very things that are most essential to make oneself prevail as an Original. I have not the qualities of an orator, nor of a poet, nor of an administrator, nor of an organizer, nor of a composer, nor of a dramatist.
And through him too I gained courage and steadfastness to remain true to Elsje, and not to give up, though the whole world stand against me." Here the woman found good opportunity for bringing the man from his world of speculation back to practical life. "But does not Jesus, or Christ, want you to do it openly, before all the world?" "I don't know ? I don't know, Elsje.
My dreams attained their former sublime splendor, and for the first time in my life I had some one to whom I could confide them. I still saw Emmy in my dreams occasionally, but not so often, and it will surprise no one to hear that it did not excite Elsje's jealousy, and that she begged me to tell her of her. Elsje also asked me whether I would call herself once more.
Following downward, by a dangerous way like stair-steps, they entered at length a small shady amphitheatre, where a waterfall plunged down a gorge and foamed and thundered. Nanking fairly danced with delight. "Oh!" he exclaimed, "I have seen paintings of cascades in Holland, but nothing like this. My mother and Elsje must come here."
The world punishes according to his deserts him, who breaking from the union has overestimated his power to persevere and to triumph." "Thus my dear husband will not be a martyr," said Elsje, as always practical, and keeping to the point. "Not if he can help it. If I came before Christ with only a crown of thorns, might he not ask them: 'Where is your gospel?
"Of course!" said Elsje. "But I had a difficult half hour, for Lucia begged me not to see you again." "Poor Lucia does she care for you very much?" "Certainly and I told her that nothing was taken away from my affection for her. But she wouldn't hear of that " "Of course!" said Elsje again. "I shouldn't accept that either. Why should she?"
She always questioned me about my dreams what and whom I had seen, where I had been. And once the words escaped her: "Oh, I wish that I could dream like you!" "Why, Elsje? What would you do?" "I should try to go to Holland," she said softly. Then I understood her. It was homesickness that had taken hold upon her. "Do you long to be back in Holland?"
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