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 | | This is the Scheveningen that bars out the intrusive stranger and foreigner by its own high dykes of custom, reserve and sturdy independence; that refuses to be patronized, and shows its very heart, finely and appealingly human, only when it realizes that the stranger, or foreigner, approaches it with human sympathy apart from idle curiosity. |
 | | He, too, heard his clear call in the Scheveningen fisher life, and we see here his masterpieces dealing with the intimate home life and labor of the people: the mussel fishers knee-deep in water with their carts, and a "wifie" sitting on the beach watching them. |
 | | They are poor, proud, sturdily independent —no beggars are among the Scheveningen folk—haughty almost in their carriage, which is noticeably fine, clannish, intermarrying with their own, never eager to make acquaintance with strangers, and pursuing their calling of fish-catching and fish-selling with the conscious pride of professionals. |
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