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answered asked Cornelius Baerle's black tulip Bowelt brothers De Witt burghers Buytenhof carriage cell child coachman Cornelius de Witt Cornelius van Baerle Cornelius's Count Tilly Craeke cried Cornelius dear Rosa death door drying-room exclaimed executioner eyes face father flower Frisian garden girl godfather godson Grand Pensionary Hague hand Harlem heard heart heaven Highness Holland Horticultural hundred thousand florins Isaac Boxtel Jacob jailer John de Witt look Lowestein Master Gryphus Monseigneur Mynheer Boxtel Mynheer Cornelius Mynheer Isaac Mynheer John Mynheer van Baerle Mynheer van Systens never officer pale paper parcel pigeons poor prince Prince of Orange prisoner replied Rosa's Ruart de Pulten scaffold servant smile Stadtholder staircase sure tell thought three bulbs Tilly took trembling tulip-fancier tulip-growers turned uttered voice watch William of Orange window wretch young
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Page 309 - De Witts, wrongly judged and wrongly punished in a moment of popular error, were two great citizens, of whom Holland is now proud." The Prince, after these last words, which, contrary to his custom, he pronounced with a voice full of emotion, gave his hands to the lovers to kiss, whilst they were kneeling before him. Then heaving a sigh, he said, — " Alas ! you are very happy, who, dreaming only of what perhaps is the true glory of Holland, and forms especially her true happiness, do not attempt...