--is it not so?'

'Such was the name.'

'And an elderly man, richly clad?'
continued Douw.

'As well as I might see,' replied his
pupil; 'he could not be young, nor yet
very old neither, and his dress was rich
and grave, as might become a citizen of
wealth and consideration.'

At this moment the sonorous boom of
the Stadhouse clock told, stroke after
stroke, the hour of seven; the eyes of
both master and student were directed to
the door; and it was not until the last
peal of the old bell had ceased to vibrate,
that Douw exclaimed:

'So, so; we shall have his worship
presently--that is, if he means to keep his
hour; if not, thou mayst wait for him,
Godfrey, if you court the acquaintance of
a capricious burgomaster. As for me, I
think our old Leyden contains a
sufficiency of such commodities, without an
importation from Rotterdam.'