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The Shadow of the North

CHAPTER IX
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I haf not a great heart at all.

I haf a very bad heart.

I could not get on in this world if I didn't." Tayoga laughed musically, and Mynheer Jacobus gruffly bidding them not to destroy anything, while he was gone, departed to see that Caterina, the Dutch cook, fat like her master, should have ready a dinner, drawing upon every resource of his ample larder.

It is but truth to say that the heart of Mynheer Jacobus was very full.

A fat old bachelor, with no near kin, his heart yearned over the two lads who had spent so long a period in his home, and he knew them, too, for what they were, each a fine flower of his own racial stock.
They were to remain several days in Albany, and after dinner they visited Alexander McLean, the crusty teacher who had given them such a severe drilling in their books.


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