The light may be seen forty-eight miles away.

It is fine to think of all the eyes within that extent of sea, invisible to us, caught almost simultaneously by this point of flame.
I did not stay at Nieuwediep but at The Helder.

Thirty years ago, however, one could have done nothing so inartistic, for then, according to M.Havard, the Hotel Ten Burg at Nieuwediep had for its landlord a poet, and for its head waiter a baritone, and to stay elsewhere would have been a crime.

Here is M.Havard's description of these virtuosi: "No one ever sees the landlord the first day he arrives at the hotel.

M.B.R.de Breuk is not accessible to ordinary mortals.