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Have you not offered me, what is to me beyond all price, that I should again be in the arms of my husband? Can I degrade myself to a lie? not for life, or liberty or even for my Philip." "Amine Vanderdecken, if you will confess your crime, before you are accused, you will have done much; after your accusation has been made, it will be of little avail."
"You do then forgive your enemy, Philip Vanderdecken?" replied Schriften, mournfully, "for such, I acknowledge myself to be." "I do, with all my heart, with all my soul," replied Philip. "Then have you conquered me, Philip Vanderdecken; you have now made me your friend, and your wishes are about to be accomplished. You would know who I am.
And Amine muttered words, which were unintelligible, and threw into the chafing-dish the other half of the paper with the characters she had written down. "Say now, Pedro, `Philip Vanderdecken, appear." "Philip Vanderdecken appear!" responded the boy, trembling. "Tell me what thou seest, Pedro tell me true?" said Amine anxiously. "Be not alarmed, Pedro, you shall have sweetmeats directly.
Philip was not a yard from him; his arm was outstretched when the miscreant dropped down paralysed with terror; and the impetus of Vanderdecken was so great, that he passed over his body, tripped and after trying in vain to recover his equilibrium, he fell and rolled over and over. This saved the little doctor; it was like the double of a hare.
"Mynheer Vanderdecken," said he, at last, "the Vrow, as my father used to say, is not so very fast before the wind. Vessels that are good on a wind seldom are; but this I will say, that, in every other point of sailing, there is no other vessel in the fleet equal to the Vrow Katerina."
"What is your name?" "Amine Vanderdecken." "Of what country?" "My husband is of the Low Countries; I am from the East." "What is your husband?" "The captain of a Dutch Indiaman." "How came you here?" "His vessel was wrecked, and we were separated." "Whom do you know here?" "Father Mathias." "What property have you?" "None; it is my husband's." "Where is it?" "In the custody of Father Mathias."
Philip put a few questions to the latter, but he either would not or could not make any reply; he removed their weapons and returned to the house, where he found the old man attended by his daughter, in a state of comparative composure. "I thank you, Philip Vanderdecken I thank you much. You have saved my dear child, and my money that is little, very little for I am poor.
I leave you to your conscience if conscience you retain nor would I change this cruel death for the pangs which you in your future life will suffer. Leave me I die in the faith of my forefathers, and scorn a creed that warrants such a scene as this." "Amine Vanderdecken," cried the priest on his knees, clasping his hands in agony. "Leave me, Father."
Philip showed great activity as well as method in the arrangements proposed, and the captain, during a pause in his own arduous duties, said to him "I thought you were taking it very easy, Mr Vanderdecken, in not joining the ship before, but, now you are on board, you are making up for lost time. You have done more during the forenoon than I could have expected.
"Ah! you will return. Yes you have your money and your goods to see to; you must count your money we will take good care of it. Where is your money, Mr Vanderdecken?" "That I will communicate to your daughter this forenoon, before I leave. In three weeks at the furthest you may expect me back." "Father," said Amine, "you promised to go and see the child of the burgomaster; it is time you went."
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