On his way to a case, Doctor Gerrit Witse, sees a youthful couple beside a country stream. The graceful young woman, on the grass held a cheerful curly ball on her lap, which laughed at the bubbles of water and foam craters; the youthful man, with a smile on his lips, looked at mother and son in turn. From the Camera Obscura, a 19th Century collection of Dutch humorous-realistic essays, stories and sketches in which Hildebrand, the author, takes an ironic look at the behavior of the 'well-to-do', finding them bourgeois and without a good word for them.

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