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I admit, I'm in want of an engagement as a traveling companion to ladies in Holland; but you aren't the only person to whom it occurs to put ads in Dutch papers. If you'd searched the columns of Het Nieus van den Dag you might have seen mine. I have not been without answers, and I don't know that I should care to be an aunt, anyway. It makes one seem so old.
I inadvertently let out her name and a lot of things " "To the young ladies I'm to chaperon?" "Yes, to the young ladies. If they remember the description " "You can say you referred to your aunt's character when you remarked that she was a fine woman." "But then there's another trouble, you know. I advertised in Het Nieus van den Dag for a Scotch aunt."
The manuscript is entitled "De CL Psalmen Davids op Nieus volgens de Nederduitschen Text in Nederduits Sangh-Rym gebracht door J.D., Liefhebber der Poësie tot Wiwert in Vrieslant," i.e., "The 150 Psalms of David, translated afresh into Dutch verse in accordance with the Dutch text, by J.D., lover of poetry, at Wieuwerd in Friesland."
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