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Boxtel, disguised as a burgher of the Hague, had made friends with the executioner, and hoped to get the tulip bulbs after the execution of van Baerle, but the commutation of the sentence again frustrated his plans, and, thinking Cornelius had the bulbs on his person, he decided to follow the prisoner.
True it was that that illustrious individual had enjoy'd in a very high degree the confidence of his noble friend's deceased relative; and true it also was, that none of the great measures which had been resolved upon at vienna and at Paris had been concerted or carried on without the intervention of that illustrious person.
If the government entertained the same opinion as his noble friend of prince de Talleyrand, it would be their duty to represent to His Majesty the king of the French that they could not transact business with such a person.
His school days at Lyons were equally agreeable to the young vagabond. His studies occupied him little; he loved to wander through the streets of the great city, finding everywhere food for fanciful speculation. He would follow a person he did not know, scrutinizing his every movement, and striving to lose his own identity in that of the other, to live the other's life.
87 30 s'était ... inexplicable: 'had conceived an inexplicable fancy for his master. Se prendre d'amitié pour quelqu'un = 'to take a liking; to a person. 87 32 ne ... semelle: 'never more than a foot behind him, lit. 88 2
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