The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland

into a secret. Please don't look so apprehensive, O'Neill! As it happens, I had a descriptive letter from Enderby just about the time that Jack was making the mos

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ins, you know-who came across from Kilkenny, for a trip to Holland. They were at the Oude Doelen w

rby to Cue

en H

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confidence with which O'Neill a

is on the hunt for archaeological papers, so

rrect and fluent. They have only had three days of it as yet, and haven't had time to find him out. Kathleen is as hau

ugh one of the back streets he asked her if she had ever notic

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k; she guessed soon enough what it meant; but it gave her a turn all the same. Perhaps it

Why even your dogmatic and intolerable chum, Mr.

ad him down to his place in the country and showed him his manuscripts. But I believe Kathleen couldn't stand him. They used always to be arguing about the Suffragettes, and passed for official enemies, in a way,-at least as uncompromis

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ogy didn't amount to much. She said she wouldn't mind d

ever, and congratulated his witty antagonist

by the way, van Leeuwen has been carrying on brisk correspondence with O'Neill, especially since he heard the MacNamaras were expected. He has offered

ng to tell yo

d to have quite a hunger for nouns, and he used to ask the names of everything

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rby to Cue

r C

e! Very sudden I must say. I suppose Kathleen has got t

s she always calls her husband-had got a trifle absent-minded since his deafness became troublesome, and

k, I was told-the three of them-to Cologne! Quick work, I thought; so I mad

to get a glimpse of his

dy met me at the door

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ik weet het niet-maar het is niet goed met hem. Ik geloof", and here her voice sank to a horrified whisper,

ve to explain, "Mijnhe

het scherm voor een kachel aan, en verknoeit alles. Ik ben zoo

o call the doctor if it were necessary; th

ight met my eyes! Indeed it was enough to asto

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toy house, with yard, garden, and stiff wooden trees. Then there was a bit of a doll's roo

Snippets of paper littered his writing-desk and the floor around. His unfinished lu

a conspicuous card was hung, bearing the myst

ould have been hard to say whether the apartm

r; but raised his hand to enjoin silence, as he fo

prices marked, I exami

t, such as 'spiegel lijst,' 'behangsel,' 'schotel of

id plan. Three hundred words a day. I'll have two thousand new nouns at my fingers' ends before the Macs a

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on me he was gett

"All nouns. That's the secret

thousand material things, you can never be at a loss. But I stick

made in bold round-hand: "Ik heb het achter de mouw", and pointed to his bread

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hay while the sun shone-which meant that he was preparing, in the absence of T

its I had ne

regulations, from those of the Luxe-trein to Buurtverkeer, and from the yearly ticket to the humble perronkaartje. It looked very thorough, and I understood that he had treated his cycle the same way. But I have grave doubts! I am

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jnheer O'Neill would certainly come to harm

at her little boy had put up in the hall. She said it was de

emde man was hij zeker; misschien de

e-held; but not remembering the right

ady could not

n te denken dat hij o

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either. For he means to start out n

hastily acquired information

ore a

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cripts. Not much fun for Kathleen though! And Terence will be bored to death. Why