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She was going down the steps with him

May in New York one hundred and twenty-one years ago

Joris Van Heemskirk

Locking-up the cupboards

She was tying on her white apron

"Come awa', my bonnie lassie"

Knitting

Neil and Bram

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With her spelling-book and Heidelberg

The amber necklace

In one of those tall-backed Dutch chairs

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He heard her calling him to breakfast

The quill pens must be mended

A Guelderland flagon

"A very proper love-knot"

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Hyde flung off the touch with a passionate oath

Batavius stood at the mainmast

He took her in his arms

A little black boy entered

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"Sir, you are very uncivil"

"Listen to me, thy father!"

He took his solitary tea

On the steps of the houses

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"Katherine, I am in great earnest"

"In the interim, at your service"

"Why do you wait?"

The swords of both men sprung from their hands

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Oh, how she wept!

"O Bram! is he dead?"

The streets were noisy with hawkers

Katherine was close to his side

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In its satin depths

Katherine knelt by Richard's side

"I am faint"

"Don't trouble yourself to come down"

"Listen to me!"

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They stood together over the budding snowdrops

His whole air and attitude had expressed delight

"I am going to take the air this afternoon"

"I will go with you, Richard"

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"Madam, I come not on courtesy"

"O mother, my sister Katherine!"

"Oh, my cheeny, my cheeny!"

Plain and dark were her garments

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Katherine stood with her child in her arms

The garden next fell under Katherine's care

"Thou has a grandson of thy own name"

Plate old and new

"Make me not to remember the past"

With a great sob Bram laid his head against her breast

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She spread out all her finery

All kinds of frivolity and amusement

"Dick, I am angry at you"

She was softly singing to the drowsy child

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She was stretched upon a sofa

She stood in the gray light by the window

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She knelt speechless and motionless

Jane lifted her apron to her eyes

"O Richard, my lover, my husband!"

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"One night in Rome, in a moment, the thing was altered,"

"I must draw my sword again"

"We have closed his Majesty's custom-house forever"

"I am reading the Word"

He was standing on the step of his high counting-desk.

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Lysbet and Catherine were unpacking

He marshalled the six children in front of him

The City Hall

He swung a great axe

Lysbet's hands gave it to them

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