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identifier	question
48697	***** Tell me what you are thinking of doing, whether you will take action and give me satisfaction or not?
48697	I would not endure it either from France or from Spain, do you think I either can or will bear it from you?
48697	If he claimed the right to do this, where was the line to be drawn?
48697	Will you do it, then do it the sooner the better; it will be best for you; when will you begin?
8823	And how about their future husbands?
8823	Have they, too, learned their trade?
8823	The man replied in the negative, when St. Nicholas rejoined,''What of the three young pigs in your tub?
8823	Why should they?
14971	What feast would be complete,wrote Hooft to her,"at which you were not present?
14971	), Jan Steen( 1626- 79), Samuel van Hoogstraeten( 1627- 78), Ludolf Backhuizen( 1631- 1709), Jan van der Meer of Delft( 1632-?
14971	), Nicolas Berchem( 1624- 83), Paul Potter( 1625- 54), Jacob Ruysdael( 1625- 81), Meindert Hobbema(?
14971	After some tentative efforts, it was resolved to send out an expedition in great force; but the question arose, where best to strike?
14971	From an intercepted letter from Louvain, dated July 30, 1829: What does one see?
14971	Some thousands of fresh troops were now raised and munitions of war collected, but to whom should the chief command be given?
14971	Was there indeed any choice?
11898	You come from the Pyrenees; you''ve seen Gavarnie?
11898	But why does the king wear so sad an air?
11898	His sister Catherine van Schwartz- bourg asked,"Do you trust in Jesus Christ?"
11898	How the deuce do their children look so fat and rosy?
11898	I had been drinking a bottle of Rhine wine that day, and how was I to afford more?
11898	Indeed it had only a franc in it; but"que voulez vous?"
11898	Is that then the sky of the south, and was it necessary to come to the happy country of the Béarnais to find such melancholy impressions?
11898	She simply asked:"Is the king yet dead?"
11898	We were as wet as ducks, but what cared we?
11898	What does the gloomy pile of bones buried in the trenches of Waterloo think of this?
11898	What is Waterloo-- a victory?
11898	What then did you go to the Pyrenees for?
11898	Who was Cambronne?
11898	Who was this Corsican of six- and- twenty years of age?
11898	Who was this new comet of war who possest the effrontery of a planet?
10583	Among so many thousand bullets, is there not one to put an end to my miserable life?"
10583	And what part had Holland taken in these proceedings?
10583	But is all this due to that great moral and social earthquake to which we give the name of the French Revolution?
10583	His sister, the countess of Swartzenberg, who now hastened to his side, asked him in German if he did not recommend his soul to God?
10583	In the first moment of his vexation he imprudently cried out,"Would ye, then, also bereave_ me_ of my place; I, who am a Spaniard?"
10583	It is even said that Maurice asked the wretched mother"why she begged mercy for her son, having refused to do as much for her husband?"
10583	On whom, indeed, could they fix but William of Nassau, without the utmost injustice to him, and the deepest injury to themselves?
10583	What ties of reciprocal interest bound the different cantons to each other?
10583	What were the rights of the nobles in their connection with these freemen?
10583	When the news of the victory reached Charles V. in his retreat, the old warrior inquired if Philip was in Paris?
10583	cried De Barneveldt,"what then is man?"
10583	or did they occupy only those elevated points of land which stood out like islands in the middle of the floods?
10583	shouted one of the boors,"why do you trample on my wheat which I have so lately had the trouble of sowing?"
8412	And pray, Sir Conjurer, who shall be the robber?
8412	And,cries Monsieur d''Artois,"do I not love my sister, too?
8412	What are they?
8412	Who,says Sir Thomas Browne,"knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried?
8412	As how, indeed, should a god be moved?...
8412	But who pulled down the two rows of statues?
8412	Did ever the sun shine upon such a king before, in such a palace?--or, rather, did such a king ever shine upon the sun?
8412	Did it?
8412	For a century and three- quarters have not all the books that speak of Versailles, or Louis Quatorze, told the story?
8412	History?
8412	Let her heart break: a plague upon her tears and repentance; what right has she to repent?
8412	See how long it was of building?
8412	Was it not Louis XIV., fulfilling the vow of Louis XIII.?
8412	What had he to do, after forty years of reign; after having exhausted everything?
8412	What had wealth to do there?
8412	Who but men, architects, the artists of our day?
8412	Who carved that new and bastard pointed arch in the very center of the middle door?
8412	Who dared to insert that clumsy, tasteless, wooden door, carved in the style of Louis XV., side by side with the arabesques of Biscornette?
8412	Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered?"
8412	Who left those empty niches?
8412	Who was stupid enough to fasten that clumsy stone anachronism into the Carlovingian pavement of Hercandus?
8412	Why should it crowd the dust of the great?
8412	does Monsieur see the black stains on the wall?"
8412	says Brantôme,"what of that?
36110	Ah,he says,"do you frequent the races at Sheepshead Bay?"
36110	Are you a New Yorker?
36110	Are you a tramp?
36110	Combien? 36110 Have you seen any icebergs?"
36110	Met any wrecks?
36110	Sir,I say,"you are in my way, will you please move out?"
36110	What is your port?
36110	What,I exclaim,"no sweets for the sweet girls of Holland?"
36110	Will you kindly give me your name?
36110	Will you please step aside and allow me to pass?
36110	( How are you?
36110	Am I not an American?
36110	And what has become of the stranger who relied on my judgment a few moments ago?
36110	Are there still lingering''pale gliding ghosts, with fingers dropping gore''?"
36110	Combien?"
36110	Did he think I was a tender lamb?
36110	Do they hope to be inspired by the magic spell of the master''s touch still lingering among the keys?
36110	How can I describe the scene that is before me?
36110	How can I make them understand?
36110	I say to myself:"God made the country, and man made the town, but who on earth has manufactured these monstrous counterpanes, and for what purpose?"
36110	I say,"do the lurking spirits of the slain thus make themselves known to the living?
36110	One of these is said to have been owned by Christopher Columbus(?).
36110	The following are some of the questions asked:"To what line do you belong?"
36110	The six weary men all look up in the direction of my finger: they smile, and think it is a good joke, and look at me as though saying:"What next?"
36110	Then why not recommend it to your friends?
36110	Vice, crime, want, suffering meet our eyes on every side: and the old hopeless cry: Why must these things be?
36110	We are always greeted with a pleasant"Goeden morgen,"or"Goeden avond,"or it may be:"Hoe staat het leven?"
36110	We rise early this morning, and partake of a good German breakfast; and of what do you suppose a good German breakfast consists?
36110	Were you not there last summer?"
36110	What better method could be employed in the absence of newspapers?
36110	What can be more beautiful than this scene?
36110	What has become of my luck?
36110	What tongue could tell, or pen impart The riches of its hidden lore?"
36110	Where can one find a grander, more solemn atmosphere than within these walls where the spirits and the hands of men have worked for ages?
42203	And a little garden- gate, too,cried Wilhelmina;"is n''t it funny?"
42203	Are n''t they gorgeous?
42203	Are we there already?
42203	Can I help you, mother?
42203	Children,he said,"how would you like to have a ride in a''trekschuit,''or passenger barge?
42203	Do n''t you feel as if you had been up two whole days?
42203	Do n''t you have them in America?
42203	Father, have n''t you got something for us to eat in your pocket?
42203	How can I tell? 42203 How old is Cousin Theodore, mother?"
42203	How would you like a raw herring, now, to give you an appetite for your dinner?
42203	Is that a milk- cart?
42203	Look, Pieter, there are big ships over there in the middle of that green meadow; how ever did they get there? 42203 May I give them some, mother?"
42203	Now shall we go to Scheveningen, or are you too tired?
42203	Oh,thought Wilhelmina,"why does she spoil her fine cap like that?"
42203	That is Delfshaven; you know what happened there once long ago, do you not?
42203	That is just like finding a country,said Theodore,"but has n''t it all cost a lot of money?"
42203	They are called''klinkers,''and many of our roads are paved this way; but do you see that town just to the left, Theodore?
42203	What are those things on the sands over there that look like big mushrooms, Cousin Joost?
42203	What is a Kermis?
42203	What on earth does that mean?
42203	What will you have, Theodore,''poffertjes''or''oliebollen''?
42203	Where shall we go to- day?
42203	Who is Henry?
42203	Why are some of the windmills built on top of the houses?
42203	Why are you putting out all the best china and the pretty silver spoons, mother?
42203	Why is the little summer- house in the corner of the garden built over the canal?
42203	Why was that small looking- glass fastened outside of one of the upper windows?
42203	As for Pieter and Wilhelmina, they could talk and think of nothing else, and Wilhelmina went about all the time murmuring to herself,"How do you do?"
42203	Ca n''t we go and see the place where they went on board ship, Cousin Joost?"
42203	Did it keep them awake?
42203	Just as Mevrouw Joost closed up the big"show- room"there came a cry from the road of"Eggs, eggs, who''ll give us eggs?"
42203	Papa Stork stood on one leg and cocked his head down to the children as much as to say:"Do n''t you wish that we were living at your house?
42203	Pieter managed to say"How do you do?
42203	THE KERMIS"ISN''T it nice that Theodore has come in time for the Kermis?"
42203	The roof was of bright red tiles, which glistened in the sun, and what do you think was on the highest point of the gable?
42203	WHERE THE CHEESES COME FROM 81 List of Illustrations PAGE PIETER AND WILHELMINA_ Frontispiece_"''HOW OLD IS COUSIN THEODORE, MOTHER?''
42203	What do you think of a garden gate without any fence?
42203	Where are they?"
42203	Why do n''t they use horses?"
42203	[ Illustration:"''HOW OLD IS COUSIN THEODORE, MOTHER?''
42203	called out Wilhelmina;"look, Pieter, are n''t they lucky people who live there?"
27799	But who is your relative?
27799	Does he disturb the repose of families?
27799	Is it not possible,I asked, introducing the element of poetry,"that some day Zealand may no longer exist?"
27799	What do you think of that?
27799	Where are we going?
27799	Where does he live? 27799 --Of what master?"
27799	Are you familiar with the arms of Zealand: a lion in the act of swimming, above which is written,''_ Luctor et emergo_''?"
27799	But, even leaving its origin out of the question, in what other country in the world do things happen as they happen in Zealand?
27799	Disturb the repose of families in Holland?
27799	First of all,--How was it formed?
27799	His sister, Catherine of Schwartzburg, asked,"Dost thou commend thy soul to Jesus Christ?"
27799	How did he live?
27799	I was often asked, playfully,"What impression does it make on you?"
27799	If a teacher of geography had stopped me at some street- corner, before I had decided to visit Holland, and abruptly asked me,"Where is Zealand?"
27799	In what other place does the sword of a Spanish captain, Mondragone, serve as a lightning- conductor, as at Wemeldingen?
27799	Is it a result of the liberty and equality of classes, making service harder to bear and the servants more independent?
27799	Is it an effect of the relaxation of manners and of public discipline, which has made itself felt even in the kitchen?
27799	Is this true or false?
27799	It seemed to me that now and then I could hear soft voices saying,"Who is that beggar?"
27799	Must I tell the truth?
27799	One day, in a group of young men at the Hague, I quoted this opinion of Saint Evremont, and bluntly demanded:"Is it true?"
27799	One of the first questions put to me when I named my country was,"What about its finances?"
27799	Or was it, as others think, terra firma when the Scheldt emptied itself into the Meuse?
27799	The expressions,"Is n''t it beautiful?"
27799	Those who do not know a country usually ask travellers,"What sort of place is it?"
27799	Was it a group of tiny alluvial islands, uninhabited and separated only by canals, which, as some believe, met and formed larger islands?
27799	Was this man only a fanatic, as many believed, or a monster of wickedness, as others held, or was he both of these inspired by a boundless ambition?
27799	What did this dreamer, this visionary, see in the dark?
27799	What did this painter of the air mean to tell us in this eternal conflict of light and shadow?
27799	What else can this miller''s son be called?
27799	What is the secret that tormented his soul?
27799	What strange mania tormented him?
27799	Where, as near Domburg, at low water is it possible to draw up ancient temples and statues of unknown deities?
27799	Who knows how long he was painting her head?
27799	Who knows?
27799	Who was this chimerical painter?
27799	Why did not this occur?
27799	what is his business?
38595	But now look here, brother citizen, what have you as a plain and sensible man gained by this assembly and by all this election business? 38595 Did Mr. Verhuell know what this presence meant?"
38595	After all, what else is it but some woodpulp and printer''s ink?
38595	And just how often had not divine Providence interfered with a timely thaw and had changed the victorious inroad into a disastrous rout?
38595	And what did the thinking part of the nation do?
38595	And when this pillar of Dutch society began to tremble upon its foundations, which were no longer sound, what was to become of the Dutch banks?
38595	And while the people were thus being impoverished, what did the government and what did the French allies do to bring about some improvement?
38595	And who, when he compares what was one hundred years ago with what is to- day, can fail to see what a miracle of human energy here has happened?
38595	But of what value is all this material?
38595	But what good, apart from a little glory, had all their bravery done them?
38595	But what?
38595	But where is the man with the courage and the tenacity of purpose to undertake this gigantic task?
38595	But who was to perform the miracle?
38595	But, on the other hand, did they not daily meet and confer with his Excellency the French minister?
38595	Despair and despondency, a shrugging of the shoulders and a protest,"What is the use?"
38595	Did the triumphant unionist party contemplate violent retribution?
38595	Do you hear?
38595	For now that the provisional delegates of the new republic were so conveniently together, would they not kindly oblige with a prompt payment?
38595	Have you found that your commerce was better protected than before?
38595	Have you paid a cent less in taxes?
38595	Have your East Indian bonds increased in value?
38595	How many had voted in all?
38595	How many voters were there in the republic?
38595	II Who was the wise man who first said that a little power was a dangerous thing?
38595	Meanwhile in The Hague, where, as of old, the Stadholder plays at being a little monarch, what is being done?
38595	Nay, Brother of the Acrid Pen, was it not the truth which hurt thee so unexpectedly rather than my scornful irony?
38595	People of the Batavian Republic, what say ye?"
38595	Perhaps, when all was said and done, was it not better to look the facts boldly in the face and return to the old order of things?
38595	Provisional, indeed?
38595	Question: Where is the Prince?
38595	Remained the all- important question,"Where would they go?"
38595	The Revolutionary Committee in Amsterdam, what was it, whence did it come, what did it aspire to do?
38595	Then-- where are they?
38595	Therefore the nays had it?
38595	Was William to be a king or was he merely to continue the office of Stadholder which his fathers had held?
38595	Was not Delacroix their sworn friend and did not the French army support him in his affection for the present Batavian Government?
38595	Well, count all those who did not vote among the yeas and see how the sum will come out then?
38595	Were the promoters of the plan quite sure that the federalists would offer no armed resistance?
38595	What matters it?
38595	What more can we say of the rule of this well- meaning monarch?
38595	What was the position of the latter toward their noble deliverers?
38595	What was the use?
38595	What was to be the exact position of the Prince, and what form of government must be adopted by the country?
38595	What was to become of him when the French should reach The Hague?
38595	What would Mr. Carlyle have done with a revolution like that?
38595	Who cares?
38595	Why does he not equip an army strong enough to resist such British aggressions?
38595	Why go on with a minute recital?
38595	Why had not his brother taken measures to prevent such a thing?
38595	Why insist on living in Utopia?
38595	Why keep up an artistic ideal when the people wanted vulgar and cheap prints?
38595	Why make sacrifices where nothing was to be gained?
38595	Why write good books or good poetry when the people asked for and were contented with the cheaper variety?
38595	Why, reader, this appeal to your culinary senses?
38595	Would his Majesty kindly peruse the document at his own leisure and make such suggestions as might occur to him?
38595	Would the Provisional kindly hurry?"
38595	[ Illustration: KING WILLIAM II] What must we say of William II?
38595	dishonour our pretty greenbacks with their fine mottoes, and accepted everywhere as the true badges of good revolutionary faith?"
14951	''And how long does the engagement last?'' 14951 ''Well and how about betrothals?''
14951	And Pharaoh''s hosts?
14951	And what is the price?
14951	Are eggs so scarce then in Holland?
14951	But what is this?
14951	Is the hroom good, sare?
14951	Is the sham good, sare?
14951	There but for the grace of God goes England--is that a reasonable utterance?
14951	Where then are the Israelites?
14951	''Art thou a bishop?''
14951	''Art thou a king?''
14951	''Did you not then send for me?''
14951	''Why hast thou destroyed the town and_ my_ folk?''
14951	(''Behold the soil you are walking on, The soil, snatched from the waves; Where are more luxurious meadows, Where do you find such cattle?'')
14951	A poet landlord and an operatic head waiter, what are they when all is said beside a friendly hotel porter?
14951	And industry, that brings from every part Of every thing the fairest and the best, Like the Arabian bird to build thy nest?
14951	And why is there no stork?
14951	Are we, in our day of decadence, to shrivel thus?
14951	Are you louzie?
14951	But is it not a heavenly sight To see a woman take delight With song or string her husband dear, When daily work is done, to cheer?
14951	But who would have the heart to complain of such small grievances when the love of song is stronger than any other?"
14951	By Greece and past ages what need I be tried When The Hague and the present are both on my side?
14951	C. Are you well?
14951	C. How do you?
14951	C. How goes it with you my good friend?
14951	C. I am also in health: how doth your father and mother?
14951	Could we not help to regain it?
14951	D. I am well I thank God; at your service: and you Clemens, how is it with you?
14951	Do it well with you?"
14951	Given the man and the moment, what can you expect?
14951	Had we any complaints?
14951	Have we not Bloomsbury?
14951	Have you not in to- day at the holy sermon?
14951	Have you remembred anything?
14951	Here is a specimen scrap of dialogue:-- S. May it please you to give me leave to go out?
14951	How did he do it?
14951	How should Parma, seeing this obscure, undersized, thin- bearded, runaway clerk before him, expect pith and energy from_ him_?
14951	I find that Kasper van Baerle wrote:"What then do we Netherlanders speak?
14951	Is Frisia-- Old Frisia-- to lag behind?
14951	Johannes Bosboom( Boymans Museum, Rotterdam) The Painter and His Wife(?).
14951	M. Are you so very a child, that you ought not to be attentive to heare the word of God?
14951	M. Could you not, knave?
14951	M. For what cause?
14951	M. How is it that you goe so often home?
14951	M. I am ready to strike you: what profit have you then gotten?
14951	M. In what chapter?
14951	M. It may bee so: but goe to, what was the cause that you have remembred nothing?
14951	M. Nothing at al?
14951	M. So you used to doe: but what did you the rest of the time?
14951	M. What compelleth you?
14951	M. What did you then?
14951	M. What have you then meritted?
14951	M. What is that to say?
14951	M. What will you then doe, if I shall forgive you?
14951	M. What, not one word?
14951	M. Whence did he take his text?
14951	M. Whither?
14951	M. Who are your witnesses?
14951	M. Who did preach?
14951	M. Why have you not done so?
14951	On seeing him, Cornelius de Witt exclaimed in astonishment,''My brother, what do you here?''
14951	One sees the influence of Fabritius, if at all, most strongly in the beautiful early picture at The Hague, in the grave, grand manner, of Diana?
14951	S. Master N. M. At what time began he?
14951	Scoffingly he asks Jan:''Art thou a king?''
14951	Shall we assume, with great charity, that Walt feared that the word Rotterdam might impair his rhythm?
14951	Simple, yet endlessly deep the reply:''Art thou a bishop?''
14951	Still more, why are there no storks in France?
14951	That the Dutch die there is no doubt, for a funeral is an almost daily object, and the aanspreker is continually hurrying by; but where are the dead?
14951	The first question the lover is asked after knocking at the door, when the parents are supposed to be in bed, is,''Have you any gingerbread?''
14951	The retort, I think, was sound:-- Do_ you_ ask what is Dutch courage?
14951	Under such conditions, is it any wonder that Münster became a city of the mad, mad beyond the sane man''s wildest dreams of excess?
14951	Was it not a good hotel?
14951	Was not the management excellent?
14951	What chance has Cupid when there are no groves?
14951	When in fury glow her eyes, He keeps silent... is n''t he wise?
14951	Who else at that date would have placed the woman''s head against a map almost its own colour?
14951	Who, after this, shall have the hardihood to speak evil of the grape?
14951	Why are there no heronries in the English public parks?
14951	Why did not Rembrandt paint all the pictures?
14951	Why stayest thou here?
14951	Why try to explain this amazing event?
14951	You cut up Betsy-- you salted the pieces-- and you are satisfied with your conduct-- three capital counts-- who are you, my good woman?
14951	_ Judge_.--Humph!--ay-- what!--What about the salting?
14951	are you in good health?
14951	is"Wat is de prijs?"
14951	well?
14951	what then is man?''