Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . s with a small, short-handled silver spoon. Thus the present writer passed the first hourof his acquaintance with the Heer Pastoor ofMarken, and in that quaint room he told of hisearly struggles, his disappointments and someof his triumphs, and somehow when the writercame away that evening in the ruddy glow ofthe setting sun, life to him seemed better, truer,cleaner and more worth while than ever were the hours we spent together thatsummer
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . s with a small, short-handled silver spoon. Thus the present writer passed the first hourof his acquaintance with the Heer Pastoor ofMarken, and in that quaint room he told of hisearly struggles, his disappointments and someof his triumphs, and somehow when the writercame away that evening in the ruddy glow ofthe setting sun, life to him seemed better, truer,cleaner and more worth while than ever were the hours we spent together thatsummer, and to him the present writer owesmuch of his knowledge of Marken and its peo-ple, which otherwise would have been to himthe sealed book it is to the great world outside. Thus it was with a sense of deep personal lossthat the writer received the news of the passingof this man the following winter, due to his de-votion and duty. Taking cold during a periodof bitter weather, he contracted pneumonia,from which he could not recover. Under thatsmall green mound on Marken he now liespeacefully, a martyr to the duty to which he A NTJE, the pretty daughter of the light-house keeper, is to be married to-day, al-beit her engagement of long standing promisedat one time to drag on for an indefinite on Marken is a very serious under-taking, there are so very many formal regula-tions to be observed in complying with the lawsof the Church community as well as the variousformalities demanded by the crown. Yet thereasons for the delay in such a slow, matter-of-fact community as Marken, where life passessmoothly and calmly, were unusual and the confusing details of much of 131 132 MARKEN AND ITS PEOPLE the gossip, I learned that the father of Antjesnitended was the sallmaker, who spent much ofhis time away from home and he and his wifequarreled almost continually because the sail-maker refused to give his consent to the this cons
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