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Enough, my good Stern! , Multatuli, take up the pen. You are not called upon to write Havelaar’s biography. I created you: I brought you over from Hamburg: I taught you good Dutch in a very short time: I made you kiss Louise Rosemeyer, of the Rosemeyers, who trade in sugar it is enough,Stern! you may go.

“This Shawlman and his wife”

Stop!! miserable spawn of dirty covetousness and blasphemous hypocrisy! I created you:you have grown into a monster under my pen:I am disgusted with my own creation choke yourself with coffee and begone!

Yes, I,, “who have suffered much,”I take the pen. I do not make any excuses for the form of my book,that form was thought proper to obtain my object. That object has a double end

In the first place, I would bring forward something which may be preserved as a holy poosaka by “little Max” and his sister, when their parents have died of sheer want.I would give to these children a testimonial from my own hand.