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In fact, they were so frightened that some of them went ashore, some jumped into the river to get away, and some fell on their knees in fear, believing that their last day had come. It is said that one old Dutchman exclaimed to his wife: "I have seen the devil coming up the river on a raft!" The men who were working the boat had no such foolish fears.
My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hasarded.
Toodleburg and father go up the river to buy up all the vegetables for the New York market?" "Oh, horrors! horrors! Why, my daughter, what put such a strange thought in your head? Think of it. Your intellectual father going into the vegetable business and with a common old Dutchman! Oh, horrors, my daughter! What could have put such a thought in your head?"
"I'm convinced that her husband and yours went out on the same boat." "What boat?" she asked innocently. "The Flying Dutchman." Mildred was safely delivered of a daughter, and when Philip was allowed to see her the child was lying by her side. Mildred was very weak, but relieved that everything was over. She showed him the baby, and herself looked at it curiously.
These three works, Nos. 509, 510, and 512, by a Dutchman, a Dane, and Italian, are interesting from the picture they exhibit of Britain at the close of the seventeenth, and in the middle of the eighteenth century. Journée faite en 1788 dans la Grande Bretagne. Paris, 1790. 8vo.
There were a few persons in that old house near the corner, who sent in for herrings, cheap butter, and pounds of flour, and whom, of course, he did not know. There was a queer old Dutchman in that square, old-fashioned house in the middle of the block, whom neither he nor anybody else knew. They went through half of the south side of the block, and found only plain and commonplace people.
Jack came back spluttering threats against 'dat domned Dutchman. What for he no give Missis letter? &c. I begged him to be patient; on which he bonneted himself in a violent way, and started off at a pantomime walk.
There is another factor besides Holland's natural gratitude to England that makes for this. Germany has overrun Holland, as well as the rest of the world with spies. Holland is offended, but cannot afford to show it now. But while we are kept quiet, there are few of us who would not do much to help the Allied cause." Hal thought quickly. He glanced at the young Dutchman shrewdly.
"Well, I suppose you are entitled to it." "I hope you will give the Dutchman the vessel and cargo. He feels very badly. He has lost a brother and a brother-in-law, and now he is afraid of losing nearly all that was saved. I hope you will not take any salvage. I am sure the Josephines would all vote to have you make no claim for it." "Excellent!
Those of you who are familiar with New York know that there is still a part of it called The Bowery, and it may interest you to learn that it is so called in memory of the farm where this arrogant old lion of a Dutchman spent his last days. He spent them peacefully and happily.
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