Please, mistress. For two days the wind never ceased its assault upon them, and the seasgrew taller and wilder with every hour until they seemed to towerhigher than the mainmast as they rushed down upon them. It would be dark soon,and the tops of the trees were turning to gold in the last rays ofsunlight. Mevrouw van de Velde is the only daughter of Burgher Hendrik Coetzee,the stadhouder of the City of Amsterdam, and the Chairman of thegoverning board of the Dutch East India Company.
Daniel, don't kill the fool. They stood together at the far side of the roped square, talkingquietly. Slowly the light of day filtered down upon them from the windows andthey looked at each other askance. Nowthey were approaching their pursuers at an oblique angle, and the gapbetween them narrowed even faster.
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