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After that he studied under another artist, who was both a scholar and a gentleman, Van Veen, and with him Peter Paul was able to speak in Latin and in his many other languages, while learning to paint at the same time. Thus we find Rubens's lot was always cast, not among the rich, but among the intelligent, the well bred, and the cultivated.
He was the son of a peasant, and, although he had an inclination toward art, he was intended for a peasant. He became a painter by chance, like many other Dutch artists. His father had a furious temper, and the son was very much afraid of him. One day poor Van Veen dropped the milk-jug; his father flew at him, but he ran out of the house and spent the night somewhere else.
"If she's gone with the young Ballawhaine, what for aren't you going to England over and fetching her home?" says I. "And what did Cæsar say?" "'No, says he, 'not a step, says he. 'If she's dead, says he, 'we'll only know it a day the sooner, and if she's in life, it'll be a disgrace to us the longest day we live." "Aw, bolla veen, bolla veen!" said Nancy.
My Mally veen!" and I could feel her heart beating through her dress and hear the husky rattle in her throat, and then all our poor little game of make-believe broke down utterly. At the next moment my father was calling upstairs that I should be late for the steamer, so my mother dried her own eyes and then mine, and let me go.
"Your own grandson, too!" "Never another for Kate, anyway," wept Grannie. "Aw boy veen, aw boy veen!" "Maybe he had another himself, who knows?" said Black Tom. "Out of sight out of mind, and these sailor lads have a rag on lots of bushes." Kate was helped to her room upstairs, Philip sat down in the kitchen, the news spread like a curragh fire, and the barroom was full in five minutes.
"What's there ter'ble about that, Grannie?" said Pete. "Isn't it the Almighty and not the parzon that makes the marriage?" "Aw, boy veen, boy veen," cried Grannie, "you was used to be a good man, but you have fell off very bad." Kate was in a fever of eagerness. She wanted to open her heart to Pete, to beg him to spare her, to tell him that it was impossible that they should ever marry.
Heemskerk's "Christ at the Sepulchre" would not be worth mentioning if it were not an excuse for introducing the artist, who was one of the most curious creatures that ever walked the face of the earth. Van Veen such is his real name was born in the village of Heemskerk at the end of the fifteenth century, and flourished at the period of Italian imitation.
After landing, Lambertsen and Grotius walked to Waalwyk, van der Veen returning the same evening to Gorcum. It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they reached Waalwyk, where a carriage was hired to convey the fugitive to Antwerp.
Van der Veen gave him his hand, saying: "Sir, you are the man of whom the whole country is talking?" "Yes, here I am," was the reply, "and I put myself in your hands " "There isn't a moment to lose," replied the clothier. "We must help you away at once."
He had a large contract for purchasing stone at Altona for a public building on which he was engaged. Van der Veen coming up added his entreaties, protesting that he too was interested in this great stone purchase, and so by means of offering a larger price than they at first dared to propose, they were able to effect their passage.
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