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"My father!"

"Do I love thee?"

"Yes, yes"

"Dost thou, then, love ainst his, and

kissed hio away and leave e?

My heart thou would break My gray hairs to the grave would go in

sorrow Katrijntje, my dear, dear child, what for me, and for thy

mother, wilt thou do?"

"Thy wish--if I can"

Then he told her of the provisionaffection, and of her satisfaction with it until Hyde had

wooed her fro the elder's

reproach on his want of explicitness, he added, "To-morrow, about thy

own house, I will take the first step Near arden I will see thee, and only a

little fence shall be between us And at the feast of St Nicholas thou

shalt be married; for then thy sisters will be here, thy sisters Anna

and Cornelia And ive thee; and all that