Constantijn huygens autobiography of a flea market

Paying, however very little attention to what was evidently a matter of everyday occurrence, the young lady walked sharply homewards with her Aunt, and after arrival at the neat and genteel residence, went quickly to her room. I will not say I followed, but I " went with her, " and beheld the gentle girl raise one dainty leg across the other and remove the tiniest of tight and elegant kid-boots.

I jumped upon the carpet and proceeded with my examinations. The left boot followed, and without removing her plump calf from off the other, Bella sat looking at the folded piece of paper which I had seen the young fellow deposit secretly in her hand. Closely watching everything. I noted the swelling thighs, which spread upwards above her tightly fitting garters, until they were lost in the darkness, as they closed together at a point where her beautiful belly met them in her stooping position; and almost obliterated a thin and peach-like slit, which just showed its rounded lips between them in the shade.

My curiosity had been aroused, and my desire to know more of the interesting young being with whom chance had so promiscuously brought me in pleasing contact, prompted me to remain quietly ensconced in a snug though somewhat moist hiding place, and it was not until near upon the hour named that I once more emerged in order to watch the progress of events.

Bella had dressed herself with scrupulous care, and now prepared to betake herself to the garden which surrounded the country-house in which she dwelt. Arriving at the end of a long and shady avenue the young girl seated herself upon a rustic bench, and there awaited the coming of the person she was to meet. It was not many minutes before the young man presented himself whom I had seen in communication with my fair little friend in the morning.

A conversation ensued which, if I might judge by the abstraction of the pair from aught besides themselves, had unusual interest for both. It was evening, and the twilight had already commenced: the air was warm and genial, and the young pair sat closely entwined upon the bench, lost to all but their own united happiness.

Constantijn huygens autobiography of a flea market

I shall get tired of hearing it soon. You know, Bella, we are no longer children? There was something catching in her impatience. The youth yielded to it, and covering her beautiful young form with his own, glued his mouth to hers and kissed it rapturously. Meanwhile the evening advanced; the trees lay in the gathering darkness, spreading their lofty tops to screen the waning light from the young lovers.

Presently Charlie slid on one side; he made a slight movement, and then without any opposition he passed his hand under and up the petticoats of the pretty Bella. Not satisfied with the charms which he found within the compass of the glistening silk stockings, he essayed to press on still further, and his wandering fingers now touched the soft and quivering flesh of her young thighs.

Bella's breath came hard and fast, as she felt the indelicate attack which was being made upon her charms. So far, however, from resisting, she evidently enjoyed the exciting dalliance. Charlie needed no further invitation, indeed he was already preparing to advance without one and instantly comprehending the permission, drove his fingers forward.

The fair girl opened her thighs as he did so, and the next instant his hand covered the delicate pink lips of her pretty slit. For the next ten minutes the pair remained almost motionless, their lips joined and their breathing alone marking the sensations which were overpowering them with the intoxication of wantoness. Charlie felt a delicate object, which stiffened beneath his nimble fingers, and assumed a prominence of which he had no experience.

Presently Bella closed her eyes, and throwing back her head, shuddered slightly, while her frame became supple and languid, and she suffered her head to rest upon the arm of her lover. Meanwhile the youth was not idle, but having fairly explored all he could in the constrained position in which he found himself, he rose, and sensible of the need of assuaging the raging passion which his actions had fanned, he besought his fair companion to let him guide her hand to a dear object, which he assured her was capable of giving her far greater pleasure that his constantijn huygens autobiographies of a flea market had done.

Nothing loth, Bella's grasp was the next moment upon a new and delicious substance, and either giving way to the curiosity she simulated, or really carried away by her newly-roused desires, nothing would do, but she must bring out and into the light the standing affair of her friend. Those of my readers who have been placed in a similar position will readily understand the warmth of the grasp and the surprise of the look which greeted the first appearance in public of the new acquisition.

Bella beheld a man's member for the first time in her life, in the full plenitude of its power, and although it was not, I could plainly see, by any means a formidable one, yet its white shaft and red-capped head, from which the soft skin retreated as she pressed it, gained her quick inclination to learn more. Charlie was equally moved; his eyes shone and his hand continued to rove all over the sweet young treasure of which he had taken possession.

Meanwhile the toyings of the little white hand upon the youthful member with which it was in contact had produced effects common under such circumstances to all of so healthy and vigorous a constitution as that of the owner of this particular affair. An important part in this enterprise was the creation of an art gallery. Frederik Hendrik couldn't have had a more accomplished candidate for this task than his secretary Constantijn Huygens.

From his youth Huygens had always nurtured a profound interest in all the art forms maintaining extensive correspondence with a host of local and international musicians, scientists and philosophers. His artistic intuition, coupled with his wide-ranging cultural background, produced a connoisseur of the highest level and the finest possible advisor for introducing the arts into the courtly culture.

It is well known from his notes on famous and not-yet-so-famous painters of his time that he was a true connoisseur. But what treatises on painting did Huygens own in his formidable personal library? Surprisingly, his book catalogue includes only an edition of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura and a copy of Franciscus Junius ' Painting of the Ancients InJunius published De pictura veterum whioch was translated as On the Painting of the Ancients inand as De Schilder-konst der Oude begrepen in drie boecken inreprinted The catalogue includes far more titles on architecture, from Vitruvius to Sebastiano Serlio.

Perhaps many of the books on painting may have been transferred to the libraries of his sons. It was no doubt Huygens' insatiable curiosity and love of art which lead him to Leiden in to visit the shared studio of the young Rembrandt — and Jan Lievens — This historic encounter in detail in his autobiography. Both artists made a deep impression to him.

Although Huygens found Lievens more open-minded and inventive of the two, he realized that Rembrandt possessed a finer touch and was able to communicate motions more intensely in his work. Huygens' attention towards the two fledging artists contributed to the eventual success of both. He commissioned Lievens to paint his portrait fig. Huygens was particularly impressed by Rembrandt's Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver and wrote in his autobiography:.

Such I place against all the elegance that has been produced throughout the ages. I maintain that it did not occur to Protagenes, Appeles or Parrhasius, nor could it occur to them were they return to earth that I am amazed simply to report this a youth, a Dutchman, a beardless miller, could bring together so much in one human figure and express what is universal.

All honor to thee, my Rembrandt! Huygens saw Rembrandt as the Dutch answer to Rubens ; a local artist capable of raising the reputation of Dutch painting to the highest level. He declared the young Rembrandt to be superior even to the ancient Greeks with his ability to integrate accurate observations of emotion into themes of universal applicability.

Huygens encouraged Rembrandt to focus on religious and mythological themes and stressed that both he and Lievens ought travel to Italy and study the great Italian masters. Oh, if only they could be acquainted with Raphael and Michelangelo, how eagerly their eyes would devour the monuments of these prodigious souls. Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip.

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Ina grandfather by now, Huygens was sent to France by the circle of tutors of William III, to recover possession of the county of Orange. The county was returned to the family of Orange-Nassau in and Huygens returned to the Netherlands. On his return, Huygens designed the new sand road in The Hague, running through the dunes to Scheveningen. He had already planned this road inand wrote about it in his work the Zee-straet.

The road was made according to Huygens' design. In the second edition of the Koren-bloemen appeared, a collected work containing 27 books. New in this edition were the Zee-straetthe Mengelingh a section of serious poems written after and seven books with snel-dichten quick poems. As he was older now, Huygens found refuge in music.

He wrote around compositions during his lifetime. A week later he was buried in the Grote Kerk in the Hague. His son, the scientist Christiaan Huygens was later buried with his father. In a literary award was created, the Constantijn Huygens Prizeto honor his legacy. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.

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