Let us wait." "Yes, let us wait," said Van der Werff; "but there are more important matters to be considered now.

Day after to-morrow will be Ascension Day, when the bells will ring for the great fair.

More than one foreign trader and traveller has passed through the gates yesterday and the day before.

Shall we order the booths to be set up, or have the fair deferred until some other time?
If the enemy hastens his march, there will be great confusion, and we shall perhaps throw a rich prize into his hands.

Pray give me your opinion, gentlemen." "The traders ought to be protected from loss and the fair postponed," said Dirk Smaling.
"No," replied Van Hout, "for if this prohibition is issued, we shall deprive the small merchants of considerable profit and prematurely damp their courage." "Let them have their festival," cried Janus Dousa.