[A Wanderer in Holland by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Holland CHAPTER XVIII 1/36
Arnheim to Bergen-op-Zoom Arnheim the Joyous--A wood walk--Tesselschade Visscher and the Chambers of Rhetoric--Epigrams--Poet friends--The nightingale--An Arnheim adventure--Ten years at one book--Dutch and Latin--Dutch and French--A French story--Dutch and English--_The English Schole-Master_--Master and scholar--A nervous catechism--Avoiding the birch--A riot of courtesy--A bill of lading--Dutch proverbs--The Rhine and its mouths--Nymwegen--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu again--Painted shutters--The Valkhof--Hertogenbosch--Brothers at Bommel--The hero of Breda--Two beautiful tombs--Bergen-op-Zoom--Messrs.
Grimston and Red-head--Tholen--The Dutch feminine countenance. At Arnheim we come to a totally new Holland.
The Maliebaan and the park at Utrecht, with their spacious residences, had prepared us a little for Arnheim's wooded retirement; but not completely.
Rotterdam is given to shipping; The Hague makes laws and fashions; Leyden and Utrecht teach; Amsterdam makes money.
It is at Arnheim that the retired merchant and the returned colonist set up their home.
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