She is rich, is she not ?" "Yes, I know her, and I knew her father.

He left her house, furniture, jewellery, and thirty thousand crowns, which are placed out at good interest.

A nice fortune for a gallant who wants money, but it will be Dirk van Goorl's, not yours." "Ah! that is just the point.

Now what do you know about Dirk van Goorl ?" "A respectable, hard-working burgher, son of well-to-do parents, brass-workers who live at Alkmaar.

Honest, but not very clever; the kind of man who grows rich, becomes a Burgomaster, founds a hospital for the poor, and has a fine monument put up to his memory." "Mother, the cold water has dulled your wits.