My house has always been guarded by six stout fellows since we returned from the Hague; and any open attempt to carry off my daughter would be useless.

It is difficult to see what he proposes to himself by stirring up a party against me; but he might have some scheme which we cannot fathom.
Our Dutchmen are slow but obstinate, and once they get an idea in their head it is difficult to discharge." "You do not fear any public tumult, surely ?" Rupert said.
"I do not anticipate it, and yet I regard it as possible," Van Duyk said.

"The people in our town have been given to bursts of frenzy, in which some of our best men have been slain." "Why don't you go down to the Hague again till this madness has passed by ?" "I cannot do that.

My enemies would take advantage of it, and might sack my house and warehouses." "But there is the burgher guard; and all the respectable citizens are with you." "That is true enough," the merchant said; "but they are always slow to take action, and I might be killed, and my place burnt before they came on to the ground.

I will send Maria with you down to the Hague to her aunt's.