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Maximilian now recognised Albert as hereditary Podesta or governor of Friesland on condition that the House of Austria reserved the right of redeeming the territory for 100,000 guilders; and Philip acquiesced in the bargain by which Frisian freedom was sold in exchange for the cancelling of a debt. The struggle with Charles of Egmont in Gelderland was not so easily terminated.
"We must return to the President," she muttered. "Well, then, let us return," said the boatman. They took a small street, which led them straight to the mansion of Mynheer van Systens, who with his best pen in his finest hand continued to draw up his report. Everywhere on her way Rosa heard people speaking only of the black tulip, and the prize of a hundred thousand guilders.
"O, how much have I to thank you for! and indeed I am grateful." "Yes, yes, she is very grateful," interrupted the old man; "but we are poor very poor. I talked about my money because I have so little, and I cannot afford to lose it; but you shall not pay me the three guilders and a half I am content to lose that, Mr Philip." "Why should you lose even that, Mynheer Poots?
So the English censor refused to let it through. That, however, did not prevent the Dutch Cable Company from pocketing my two hundred guilders. By the time I reached Rotterdam the word "refugee" had assumed a new and altogether nearer meaning.
"These diamonds and jewels my father must have brought with him from Egypt. And yet how penuriously were we living until we came to this cottage! And with all this treasure he would have poisoned my Philip for more! God forgive him!" Having counted the gold, which amounted to nearly fifty thousand guilders, the whole was replaced, and they left the room.
"I am aware of that; but still your property will be lost; but it will be but a matter of prudence to save all you can: you have already a large sum of gold collected." "I have four thousand guilders, at least." "You must think of your daughter, Mynheer Krause. This gold must not find its way into the pockets of the mob.
They were not informed of the exact nature of the enterprise, but were told that it was a dangerous although not a desperate one, and sure to be of great service to the Fatherland. They received, as all the rest had done, between 200 and 300 guilders in gold, that they would all be promoted to be captains and first mates.
Take these 500 guilders, and dress yourself in the costume of a Friesland bride, for I want it to be a grand festival for you." Sunday came, May 15, 1673, and all Haarlem gathered to do honour to the black tulip. Boxtel was in the crowd, feasting his eyes on the sacred flower, which was born aloft in a litter.
There could not be a doubt that Van Baerle had become a tulip-grower. Boxtel at once pictured to himself this learned man, with a capital of four hundred thousand and a yearly income of ten thousand guilders, devoting all his intellectual and financial resources to the cultivation of the tulip.
The scheme, thus mapped out, was submitted to Stoutenburg, who gave it his approval after suggesting a few amendments. The document was then burnt. It was estimated that twenty men would be needed for the job, and that to pay them handsomely would require about 6000 guilders.
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