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She bounded aside like a startled fawn, but Heemskirk, with a lucid comprehension of what she was there for, pounced upon her, and, catching her arm, clapped his other thick hand over her mouth. "If you try to make a noise I'll twist your neck!" This ferocious figure of speech terrified the girl sufficiently.
But, sir, if you will do my errand for me, I am content. 'Tis from Madame Van Heemskirk " "SO then? That is good." "I am George Hyde, her grandson, you know." "Well then, I did not know. 'Tis near dark, and I see not as well as once I did." "I have brought from Madame Van Heemskirk some ivory winders for Madame Jacobus." "Come in, come in, and tell my Arenta the message thyself.
"He would squash Heemskirk like a blackbeetle all the same," I remarked. "Rather!" she murmured. "And that wouldn't do," she added quickly. "Imagine the state poor papa would get into. Besides, I mean to be mistress of the dear brig and sail about these seas, not go off wandering ten thousand miles away from here."
"Arenta would hardly have given you any opportunity. I wonder at what hour she will release Joris Van Heemskirk!" "It will be later than it ought to be."
He was as conciliatory as he knew how to be, and this very thing seemed to excite Heemskirk, who had worked himself up into a heavily breathing state of passion. "And the worst of them all is that Allen," he growled. "Your particular friend eh? You have let in a lot of these Englishmen into this part. You ought never to have been allowed to settle here. Never. What's he doing here now?"
She reflected also, that now he was so far away, it would be possible for her to call upon Madame Van Heemskirk, and also upon Madame Jacobus as soon as she returned; but if Hyde had remained in New York, these houses would necessarily be closed to her, for he was a constant visitor at both. She resolved therefore to call upon Madame Van Heemskirk the following week.
"And sick thou art now, I can see that," said Madame Van Heemskirk coming forward "What is the matter with thee, my Joris?" "Cornelia has refused me. I know not how it is, that no woman will love me. Am I so very disagreeable?" "Thou art as handsome and as charming as can be; and it is not Cornelia that has said 'no' to thee, it is her father.
Then Van Ariens hurried down to his tanning pits in the swamp; and Van Heemskirk went thoughtfully to Broad Street; walking slowly, with his left arm laid across his back, and his broad, calm countenance beaming with that triumph which he foresaw for the city he loved.
Under the impression of Heemskirk's sinister immobility she had half a mind to let Jasper know that they had been seen. But she was by no means certain that Heemskirk would tell her father and at any rate not that evening. She concluded rapidly that the safest thing would be to get Jasper out of the way as soon as possible. "What has he been doing?" asked Jasper in a calm undertone. "Oh, nothing!
"And such a fair, free city for a home!" said Van Heemskirk as he looked up and down the sunshiny street. New York is not perfect, but we love her. Right or wrong, we love her; just as we love our mother, and our little children." "That, also, is what the Domine says," answered Van Ariens; "and yet, he likes not that New York favours the French so much.
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