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It is of its poorer quarters that certain poor quarters of Paris make one think, in the morning, with their tall, wide chimneys to which the sun imparts the most vivid pinks, the brightest reds; it is a whole garden that flowers above the houses, and flowers in such a variety of tints that one would call it, planted on top of the town, the garden of a tulip-fancier of

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The dry-room, this pantheon, this sanctum sanctorum of the tulip-fancier, was, as Delphi of old, interdicted to the profane uninitiated.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

But to kill a tulip was a horrible crime in the eyes of a genuine tulip-fancier; as to killing a man, it would not have mattered so very much.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Cornelius was happy, as thoroughly happy as a tulip-fancier would be to whom one has not spoken of his tulip.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

A tulip-fancier like him will not tarry one hour, not one minute, not one second, to set out to see the eighth wonder of the world.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

"We shall plant the other to-morrow, my dear Mynheer Cornelius," said Rosa, in a low voice, who understood the intense grief of the unfortunate tulip-fancier, and who, with the pure sacred love of her innocent heart, poured these kind words, like a drop of balm, on the bleeding wounds of Cornelius.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

What no one but a tulip-fancier, and an envious tulip-fancier, could have discovered, -- the existence of the bulbs and the endeavours of the prisoner, -- jealousy had enabled Boxtel, if not to discover, at least to guess.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

They therefore began to chat also about other things, and the tulip-fancier found out to his great astonishment what a vast range of subjects a conversation may comprise.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

In his prison cell the most adventurous life which ever fell to the lot of any tulip-fancier was reserved for him.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

As to Cornelius van Baerle, it must be stated to his honour, not as a man, but as a tulip-fancier, his only thought was for his inestimable bulbs.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836