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I thought this a proper time to settle everything, and prevent another journey to Court, which would be no longer pleasing after my brother left it, who was now pressing his expedition to Flanders with all haste.
Rhodolph's third brother, Matthias, was now forty-nine years of age. He had been educated by the illustrious Busbequias, whose mind had been liberalized by study in the most celebrated universities of Flanders, France and Italy.
From Valenciennes to Mons, the country is still flat, though the cultivation and the aspect of the scene is somewhat varied from what had been exhibited by the districts of French Flanders, through which we had previously passed.
At least, I shall. There's a girl I know who'll drive for me. They'll have to give me leave to get married in, too." She thought: "I can't go to Flanders now, unless he's sent out. If he is, nothing shall stop me but his coming back again." It seemed to her only fair and fitting that they should snatch at their happiness and secure it, before their hour came.
It is remarkable that, although for the space of one hundred and fifty years the Netherlands were continually the scene of invasion and devastation by these northern barbarians, the political state of the country underwent no important changes. The emperors of Germany were sovereigns of the whole country, with the exception of Flanders.
The size of the farms is exceedingly various in the districts of Flanders which we have visited. From Cambray to Valenciennes, they were called from 200 to 300 marcotis; but from Mons to Brussels, an exceedingly well-cultivated district, they seldom exceed from 50 to 100 marcotis; which, as far as we could judge, was not above from 25 to 50 acres.
On the 27th the Belgians and French pushed on as far as the Blankaart Lake and the Houthulst Forest, taking Luyghem, Merckem, Kippe, and Aschoop, and on the 30th the Canadians forced their way into the outskirts of Passchendaele. Its capture was completed on 6 November and supplemented in the following days by an advance a few hundred yards along the road towards Staden. The Battles In Flanders
"Immediately the storm abated, and the Count, bearing the fragment of the Cross aloft, was miraculously transported over the waves to dry land." This land proved to be the sand dunes of Flanders, and the church tower was that of St. Walburga.
"Thank you, sir," said Flanders simply, for he was a gentleman. On the first day of July the incomparable Diggs gave notice. It was like a clap out of a clear sky. "My goodness, Diggs, you don't you CAN'T mean it," gasped Mr. Bingle. "I do mean it, sir, I'm sorry to say, sir," said Diggs.
And be it remembered that this same Charter, in the same terms, word for word, was sealed in Flanders under the King's Great Seal, that is to say, at Ghent, the 5th day of November, in the 52th year of the reign of our aforesaid Lord the King, and sent into England.
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