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The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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desire that my proposal shall not be at once
withdrawn, you must, before I leave this
room, write your name to this engagement.'

Having thus spoken, he placed a paper
in the hands of Gerard, the contents of
which expressed an engagement entered
into by Gerard Douw, to give to Wilken
Vanderhausen, of Rotterdam, in marriage,
Rose Velderkaust, and so forth, within one
week of the date hereof.

While the painter was employed in
reading this covenant, Schalken, as we have
stated, entered the studio, and having
delivered the box and the valuation of the
Jew into the hands of the stranger, he
was about to retire, when Vanderhausen
called to him to wait; and, presenting the
case and the certificate to Gerard Douw,
he waited in silence until he had satisfied
himself by an inspection of both as to the
value of the pledge left in his hands. At
length he said:

'Are you content?'

The painter said he would fain have an
other day to consider.

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