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Boxtel guessed the nature of the documents, and determined to make use of this knowledge at the opportune time in order to ruin his rival. The day Craeke arrived at Dordrecht with the order from Corneille de Witt to destroy the papers, van Baerle was in his drying-room, oblivious of the world and its revolutions, but enraptured by his success in the world of tulips.
He pleaded ignorance of the contents of the documents found in his possession, but his judges, who were Orangists, had determined to convict him of treason, and deliberated only as a matter of form.
The professor's chair, however, does not seem to have been congenial to his tastes, for in 1836 he removed to Paris, determined to devote himself exclusively to literature. He took up his abode in the fourth story of a house in a retired part of the city, and of his life there he gives us charming glimpses in his "Philosophe sous les Toits."
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