Hagenaar

— I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés. The waiters did not begin to worry us at a quarter to eleven, and by half-past twelve, when we left, the streets were still alive with people. Alive, not noisy, for the sense of the founder of the Dutch Republic appears to have been inherited by the nation generally, and by the Hagenaars especially. William the Silent, two of whose effigies adorn the royal residence, was neither silent nor taciturn, in spite of the adjectives tacked to his name.