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Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid, But somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
Do not make the mistake of thinking Tartarin a lunatic. Just as his immortal predecessor Don Quixote was thoroughly sane except in that which touched the realm of chivalry, so Tartarin is a normal Frenchman except when he is under the influence of the southern mirage.
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.
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