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"Thou art the only Christian I have ever known!" said van den Ende, half mockingly, half tenderly. "And thou art a Jew." "So was Christ." "True, one forgets that. But the rôles are becoming nicely reversed. Thou forgivest thine enemies, and in Amsterdam 'tis the Jews who are going to the Christians to borrow money for this synagogue of theirs!" "How is the young juffrouw?" asked Spinoza at last.
"No!" said the offensive father, without taking the cigar from his mouth. "But you are the hotel-keeper at any rate?" I asked in a disagreeable state of uncertainty. "Yes," came the answer just as curtly, as though he wanted to say, "Are you through soon now? Then we'll go to sleep again." "But are you not then the father of Juffrouw Van Vianen, who lives in this house?" "No!" said the man.
As we walked along the hot quiet streets we saw the residents peeping at us through their wire window screens with amazed, well-nigh angry glances. "Do you see how we are being stared at?" said Elsje. "That will give them something to talk about for a whole week again." "And don't you mind that, Juffrouw Elsje?"
This time she blushed deeply when she saw me, although there was now really less reason for it than last time. But I knew it was joy, for I also saw her eyes sparkling. "Oh, is it you!" she said with restrained surprise. "Did you wish to speak with me?" "If it is convenient to you, Juffrouw Van Vianen?" "Just step into the upper room. Didn't your French friend come with you?"
And although such journeys by water and land seem to offer little good opportunity for composition, beyond the keeping of a good journal, yet I began with a good will, and by God's grace pursued and happily finished it.... After returning home and revising and correcting it, it was thought advisable to submit it for further revision to the Juffrouw N.N., which was done, and after two years I received it back with corrections," copied it again, kept it still longer, but then in view of the publication of Hendrick Ghysen's version found it useless to publish.
I too now found it unnecessary to talk longer around the subject. "Then would you kindly tell Juffrouw Van Vianen that there is someone who urgently desires to speak to her?" The cigar now fell from the gaping mouth and the solitary eye also opened perceptibly wider like that of a hippopotamus emerging from the water. I was scrutinized a while.
But the little "book of saints" which has just been mentioned says, of a Juffrouw Huyghens, who died in January, 1680, a lady very zealous for the conversion of the Indians, that she said that "if any of us went out thither, she would wish to be one of the first."
"Oh, you!" she said with charming emphasis and naive candor: "I really didn't mean you! with you I don't have to be careful I saw that directly." "Who knows, Juffrouw Elsie! for I am one of those dark foreigners too, and my Dutch is not yet quite irreproachable." "You are no stranger to me," she said again, softly and earnestly.
She rarely exhibits, and her portraits are in private houses. <b>BAKHUYZEN, JUFFROUW GERARDINA JACOBA VAN DE SANDE.</b> Silver medal at The Hague, 1857; honorary medal at Amsterdam, 1861; another at The Hague, 1863; and a medal of distinction at Amsterdam Colonial Exhibition, 1885. Daughter of the well-known animal painter.
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