"He has a right to come to Albany.

Perhaps he feels the necessity, too, as no doubt he is interested in large contracts for the army." "It iss true, Benjamin, but you und I would rather he had not come.

He arrived but this morning on his own sloop, the _Dirkhoeven_, und I feel that wherever Adrian Van Zoon iss the air becomes noxious, full of poisonous vapors und dangerous to those about him." "You're right, Jacobus.

I see that your faculties are as keen as ever.
You can see through a mill stone, and you can put together much larger figures than two and two." Mynheer Jacobus smiled complacently.
"I haf not yet reached my zenith," he said, "und I am very glad I am not yet an old man, because I am so full of curiosity." "I don't take your meaning, Jacobus." "I would not like to die before this great und long war iss ended because I wish to see how it does end.

Und I want to see the nature of the mighty changes which I feel are coming in the world." "What changes, for instance, Jacobus ?" "The action of the New World upon the Old, und the action of the old monarchies upon one another.