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On the 21st and 22nd October, Ootmarsum and Oldenzaal were taken, and on the 28th the little army came before Lingen. This important city surrendered after a fortnight's siege.
Urquhart was a rich man, and to know that his lawyer was rich was no bad thing. It inspired confidence. Now the particular thing to be done with the two men, Francis Lingen and Urquhart, was this. Francis Lingen, who might be a baronet some day and well to do, was at the moment, as at most moments hitherto, very short of money. Urquhart always had plenty.
They were exhibited at their prison at Amsterdam to an immense concourse at a shilling a peep, the sums thus collected being distributed to the poor. Slatius made his way disguised as a boor into Friesland, and after various adventures attempted to cross the Bourtange Moors to Lingen.
They would hold Rheinberg, Groll, Lingen, Oldenzaal, Wachtendonk, Maestricht, Aachen, and Mulheim with a permanent force of more than 20,000 men. And they could do all this in four days' time. A week or two later all his prophesies had been fulfilled. "The Prince of Neuburg," he said, "and Marquis Spinola have made game of us most impudently in the matter of the treaty.
A certain Van der Lingen, at Stellenbosch, calls Europe 'one vast Sodom', and so forth. There is altogether a nice kettle of religious hatred brewing here. The English Bishop of Capetown appoints all the English clergy, and is absolute monarch of all he surveys; and he and his clergy are carrying matters with a high hand. The Bishop's chaplain told Mrs.
"You were there before Francis Lingen," she had said well, and then she had been furious with him. He had said, "I know that I was," and she, "If that is all your memory brings you " and off she went. He smoked hard lifted his hand and dropped it smartly to his mantelpiece. No; that was a thing no man could fathom. A Lucyism quite clear to herself, no doubt. Well, he'd leave that alone.
"What do you mean, James?" she said and he, "I know that you were at the Flower Show. You were there with Lingen." "Yes," said Lucy, "I was indeed. And why shouldn't I be?" "I have told you before this what my views are about that. I don't intend to repeat them, at present." "I think you must be mad," said Lucy.
On the 4th August Maurice broke up his camp in Flanders, and leaving five thousand men under Colonel Van der Noot, to guard the positions there, advanced rapidly to Deventer, with the intention of saving Lingen. It was too late. That very important place had been culpably neglected. The garrison consisted of but one cannoneer, and he had but one arm.
They would hold Rheinberg, Groll, Lingen, Oldenzaal, Wachtendonk, Maestricht, Aachen, and Mulheim with a permanent force of more than 20,000 men. And they could do all this in four days' time. A week or two later all his prophesies had been fulfilled. "The Prince of Neuburg," he said, "and Marquis Spinola have made game of us most impudently in the matter of the treaty.
I don't know how to say it, but he has simply enhanced everything as you say, like a velvet lining to a jewel. All this is true and something in me calls for him, and urges me to go to him. But now but yet all this hateful jealousy this playing off one man against another Francis Lingen! As if I ever had a minute's thought of Francis Lingen oh, it's really disgusting.
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