I have escaped from his hands; I will never come within their reach again." "An enemy did this, and not our father." And she told him what she had overheard Cornelis and Sybrandt say.

But the injury was too recent to be soothed.

Gerard showed a bitterness of indignation he had hitherto seemed incapable of.
"Cornelis and Sybrandt are two ill curs that have shown me their teeth and their heart a long while; but they could do no more.

My father it is that gave the burgomaster authority, or he durst not have laid a finger on me, that am a free burgher of this town.

So be it, then.