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"De duivel!" exclaimed Van Galgebrok, "Very well. It shall be done as you direct. But about dat jonker," he continued, lowering his voice; "have you anything to add consarnin' him? It's almosht a pity to put him onder de water." "Is the sloop ready to sail?" asked Wild, without noticing the skipper's remark. "Ja," answered Van; "at a minut's nodish."
"De gentleman may rely on my showing his relation all de attention in my power," replied Van Galgebrok, bowing profoundly to the knight; "but if any unforseen accident such as a slip overboard should befal de jonker on de voyage, he mushn't lay de fault entirely on my shoulders haw! haw!" "Where is he?" asked Sir Rowland, glancing uneasily around. "I do not see him." "De jonker.
If any man is ennobled, ail his children, sons as well as daughters, share the privilege, so there is no 'courtesy title; officially they are indicated by the father's rank from the moment of their birth, but as long as they are young it is the custom to address the boys as 'Jonker, the girls as 'Freule. For the rest, life at The Hague is very much like life everywhere else.
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