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The girl was gone before I could ask what extra necessity for labor had fallen upon the household this sultry summer afternoon. Daisy came hurriedly to me, a moment later, and took both my hands in hers. She also bore signs of work and weariness. "Oh, I am so glad you are come!" she said, eagerly. "Twice I have sent Tulp for you across to your mother's. It seemed as if you never would come."
Tulp and his class of surgeons: the famous "Lesson in Anatomy" now in the Gallery at The Hague. The subject at the time was very popular.
I had gone to bed late one hot July night, and had hardly fallen asleep, for gloomy musing upon these things, when I was awakened by a loud pounding on the door beneath. I was at my mother's house, fortunately, and the messenger had thus found me out promptly. Tulp had also been aroused, and saddled my horse while I dressed, in response to the summons.
Rembrandt portrays Tulp and his pupils grouped round a table on which is stretched a naked corpse, whose arm has been dissected by the anatomist's knife. The professor, who wears his hat, stands pointing out the muscles of the arm with his scissors, and explaining them to his pupils. Some of the scholars are seated, others stand, others lean over the body.
Banning Cock himself was not among the discontented. A few leading citizens, like Dr. Tulp and the Burgomeister Six, were ever his devoted patrons. Artists still gathered about him; pupils still crowded to his studio; Nicolas Maes, De Gelder, Kneller among them.
However, that I surrendered your keeping to a papistical infidel is my own blame, and I do not reproach you. "The nigger Tulp, whom you sent to me upon your departure for the wars, was more trouble than he was worth, to say nothing of his keep. He was both lame and foolish, getting forever in my way, and crying by the hour with fears for your safety.
I looked up into her face. She had been silent for I know not how long, following her thoughts as I had followed mine. It was almost a shock to me to find that the talk had died away, and I fancied that I read a kindred embarrassment in her eyes. I seized upon the first subject which entered my head. "Tulp would be glad to see you," I said, foolishly enough.
I heard Tulp and Eli jointly shouting out the news of my arrival for which premature disclosure I could have knocked their woolly heads together but it seemed that the tidings had reached them before. In fact, they had met Mr. Cross and Enoch on the road down from Johnstown, as I learned afterward.
I'll follow along the best I can." The phrase "get there" it was almost the only English which poor Tulp had put into the polyglot sentence he really uttered arrested my attention. "Get where?" I had been headed for the mountains for the black water which dashed foaming down their defiles, and eddied in sinister depths at their bases.
"When you do see me again," I made answer, "be sure that I will break every bone in your body." With this not very heroic interchange of compliments we parted. I continued the descent, and crossed the creek to where the unfortunate Tulp was waiting for me. I Perforce Say Farewell to My Old Home.
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