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She was going down the steps with him[Frontispiece]
May in New York one hundred and twenty-one years ago[3]
Joris Van Heemskirk[4]
Locking-up the cupboards[7]
She was tying on her white apron[11]
"Come awa', my bonnie lassie"[13]
Knitting[16]
Neil and Bram[19]
Tail-piece[20]
Chapter heading[21]
With her spelling-book and Heidelberg[24]
The amber necklace[27]
In one of those tall-backed Dutch chairs[34]
Tail-piece[38]
Chapter heading[39]
He heard her calling him to breakfast[42]
The quill pens must be mended[49]
A Guelderland flagon[53]
"A very proper love-knot"[57]
Tail-piece[62]
Chapter heading[63]
Hyde flung off the touch with a passionate oath[65]
Batavius stood at the mainmast[67]
He took her in his arms[71]
A little black boy entered[75]
Tail-piece[82]
Chapter heading[83]
"Sir, you are very uncivil"[89]
"Listen to me, thy father!"[97]
He took his solitary tea[102]
On the steps of the houses[105]
Tail-piece[106]
Chapter heading[107]
"Katherine, I am in great earnest"1[10]
"In the interim, at your service"[116]
"Why do you wait?"[122]
The swords of both men sprung from their hands[125]
Tail-piece[127]
Chapter heading[128]
Oh, how she wept![133]
"O Bram! is he dead?"[137]
The streets were noisy with hawkers[146]
Katherine was close to his side[151]
Tail-piece[155]
Chapter heading[156]
In its satin depths[162]
Katherine knelt by Richard's side[164]
"I am faint"[175]
"Don't trouble yourself to come down"[178]
"Listen to me!"[183]
Tail-piece[187]
Chapter heading[188]
They stood together over the budding snowdrops[193]
His whole air and attitude had expressed delight[198]
"I am going to take the air this afternoon"[207]
"I will go with you, Richard"[211]
Tail-piece[214]
Chapter heading[215]
"Madam, I come not on courtesy"[220]
"O mother, my sister Katherine!"[226]
"Oh, my cheeny, my cheeny!"[231]
Plain and dark were her garments[237]
Tail-piece[240]
Chapter heading[241]
Katherine stood with her child in her arms[243]
The garden next fell under Katherine's care[246]
"Thou has a grandson of thy own name"[249]
Plate old and new[252]
"Make me not to remember the past"[258]
With a great sob Bram laid his head against her breast[263]
Chapter heading[266]
She spread out all her finery[273]
All kinds of frivolity and amusement[278]
"Dick, I am angry at you"[282]
She was softly singing to the drowsy child[285]
Chapter heading[289]
She was stretched upon a sofa[295]
She stood in the gray light by the window[301]
Chapter heading[303]
She knelt speechless and motionless[307]
Jane lifted her apron to her eyes[311]
"O Richard, my lover, my husband!"[317]
Chapter heading[320]
"One night in Rome, in a moment, the thing was altered,"[323]
"I must draw my sword again"[328]
"We have closed his Majesty's custom-house forever"[333]
"I am reading the Word"[339]
He was standing on the step of his high counting-desk.[345]
Chapter heading[348]
Lysbet and Catherine were unpacking[350]
He marshalled the six children in front of him[354]
The City Hall[358]
He swung a great axe[359]
Lysbet's hands gave it to them[365]
Tail-piece[371]