"To assail a respectable lady in the street! Are these Leyden manners?
Give me your hand, Frau Maria, and if I hear a single reviling word, I'll call the constables.

I know you.

The gallows Herr Van Bronkhorst had erected for men like you, is still standing by the Blue Stone.

Which of you wants to inaugurate them ?" The men, to whom these words were addressed, were not the bravest of mortals, and not a syllable was heard, as Aquanus led the young wife into the tavern.

The landlord's wife and daughter received her in their own rooms, which were separated from those occupied by guests of the inn, and begged her to make herself comfortable there until the crowd had dispersed.