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pression was as exalted as though he had seen some heavenly vision.
“What is the matter?” he asked. “Hast thou found Juffrouw Jacqueline?”
“Nay,” answered Jan, “I have not found her. But Pieter de Witt, I have just beheld the finest act of courage that it was ever the lot of one poor man to witness! If Adrian Van der Werf can thus bear the sorrows of a whole city on his heart, thou and I, through God, must not shrink at the burdens His wisdom has seen fit to lay upon us!” And he told the doctor of his morning’s experience.
