... everybodyeverywhere, and always turns up again in the old haunts, bristling with interesting information, visiblyenjoying his busy, full life, and not without a certain vanity, arising from the feeling that ... women in Holland are slowly winning their way to greaterindependence of life. They are filling posts in public offices; they are going to the universities; they arestudying medicine and qualifying ... adversary stands higher in culture and intellect, and is also more enterprising, than the great majority of the Dutch peasants. He welcomes manyinventions, and is willing to risk something in trying...