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...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canal...

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... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a pu... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own r... ... charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was conf... ...nt, a great man is found to head the execution of vast and noble designs; and for that reason, when such a providential con- currence of circumstances... ...ts. “Stop,” replied the Count, “there you at once ask me more than I can tell you. I was told, ‘Guard the prison,’ and I guard it. Y ou, gentlemen, wh... ...leaned on the shoulder of 21 Dumas an officer, who, with his hand on his sword, had watched the scenes in the Buytenhof with eager curiosity, very na... ...e godson of Cornelius de Witt. He had inhabited the same house ever since his childhood, for it was the house in which his father and grandfather, old...