Baerle

Baerle kept in duplicate, if possible even with greater exactitude and care than the first commercial houses of Amsterdam their ledgers, Boxtel read these lines: --

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Van Baerle could not imagine the cause of the mishap, which, fortunately, was of far less consequence than it might have been.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Baerle so carefully secreting the parcel in the drawer where he used to keep his most precious bulbs.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Van Baerle remained faithfully attached to Rosa and to his tulips.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Van Baerle began to be sensible to what was going on around him.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Baerle was but a painter, a sort of fool who tried to reproduce and disfigure on canvas the wonders of nature.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Baerle, and enough to fan the rage of the horticultural murderer, who tore his hair at the sight of the effects of the crime which he had committed in vain.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Baerle at the Hague, sent him to undergo his perpetual imprisonment at the fortress of Loewestein, very near Dort, but, alas! also very far from it; for Loewestein, as the geographers tell us, is situated at the point of the islet which is formed by the confluence of the Waal and the

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Baerle, he convinced himself that the soil of a large square bed, which had formerly been occupied by different plants, was removed, and the ground disposed in beds of loam mixed with river mud (a combination which is particularly favourable to the tulip), and the whole surrounded by a border of turf to keep the soil in its place.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

I must say, I would then rather be Cornelius van Baerle than Alexander, Caesar, or Maximilian.

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836