I hope I was as interesting and beguiling as I tried to be.

And all the time, exactly opposite the Roman Catholic church, was reposing in the library of the University no less a treasure than the New Testament of Erasmus, with marginal notes by Martin Luther.

There it lay, that afternoon, within call, while the weary boys pattered from one Station of the Cross to another, little recking the part played by their country in sapping the power of the faith they themselves were fostering, and knowing nothing of the ironical contiguity of Luther's comments.
By leaving Groningen very early in the morning I gained another proof of the impossibility of rising before the Dutch.

In England one can easily be the first down in any hotel--save for a sleepy boots or waiter.

Not so in Holland.