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 O sooner had Gysbert been dispatched on his journey to Rotterdam, than  Jacqueline turned her attention to preparing  breakfast. Much to her astonishment, Vrouw Voorhaas was not yet up and about,  but she concluded that the woman was  wearied out with hard work and anxiety, and  was taking an extra, involuntary nap.

The most careful search in the larder revealed nothing that under ordinary circumstances would be considered in the least palatable. Jacqueline remembered two pigeons’ eggs that had been laid the day  before, and determined that they must  go toward furnishing the breakfast-table. These, with some very thin gruel of pigeon grain completed the arrangements.