"I don't wish to hear anything more about them, if--you--please," she said, severely and emphatically, to Dortje .
But not so. In time the professor died, leaving Koosje the large legacy with which she set up the handsome shop in the Oude Gracht ; and several years passed on.
It happened one day that Koosje was sitting in her shop sewing. In the large inner room a party of ladies and officers were eating cakes and drinking chocolates and liquors with a good deal of fun and laughter, when the door opened timidly, thereby letting in a gust of bitter wind, and a woman crept fearfully in, followed by two small, crying children.
Could the lady give her something to eat? she asked; they had had nothing during the day, and the little ones were almost famished.
Koosje , who was very charitable
