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He had received something that felt like the cut of a whip in the calf of his left leg, but the impact was so violent that it drove him up against a tree. "Are you hurt?" Maurice anxiously inquired. "Yes, and in the leg, worse luck!"
Thus died one of the three brave brothers, for the youngest, Horace, had also joined the army in 1590. The survivors of the band under Sir Nicholas Parker and Marcellus Bacx managed to effect their retreat, covered by a reserve Prince Maurice had posted on the opposite side of the river. In March, 1596, Sir Francis Vere returned to Holland.
She was informed at first that Maurice was asleep, and at four in the morning that all intervention was useless. The faithful and energetic du Maurier, who had already exhausted himself in efforts to save the life of the great prisoner, now made a last appeal. He, too, heard at four o'clock in the morning of the 13th that sentence of death was to be pronounced.
To her great surprise, he drew her to him, and kissed her forehead, saying, 'Well done, Phyl! 'Oh, I knew he was not going to hurt me, said Phyllis, still panting from the struggle. 'To be sure not, said Maurice, 'I only meant to have a little fun.
With both branches of the stately Scheld in its control, the republic would command the coast, and might even dispense with Ostend, which, in the judgment of Maurice, was an isolated and therefore not a desirable military possession. The States- General were of a different opinion. They much desired to obtain Sluy's, but they would not listen to the abandonment of Ostend.
The young man halted, forcing his companion to do the same, and with his eyes fixed on a figure pacing up and down the opposite alley, he remarked, "I suppose she is one of the reigning belles here?" "Rather a solitary belle," laughed his cousin. "I should think even a belle might enjoy solitude at times," rejoined Maurice, argumentatively. The lady, Mrs.
"But that's the only way he can be sure of getting Jacky," Eleanor argued to herself, her mind clearing into helpless perplexity "and it's the only way to keep him from Edith. But I wish Lily wasn't so vulgar. Maurice won't like living with her." Suddenly she said, "Maurice, do send the nurse out of the room. I want to tell you something, darling." She was very hoarse.
A deed or two, never to be forgotten by Netherland hearts, was yet to be done on the ocean, before the long and intricate negotiations for peace should begin, and the weary people permit themselves to rejoice; but the prize was already won. Meantime, the conduct of Prince Maurice in these last days of the campaign was the subject of biting censure by friend and foe.
Leicester accordingly sent his nephew to Maurice that they might consult together upon the enterprise, and make sure "that there was no ill intent, there being so much treachery in the world." Sidney found no treachery in young Maurice, but only, a noble and intelligent love of adventure, and the two arranged their plans in harmony.
But on that occasion, when I was an uncomfortable third, Maurice was very angry that she should have been allowed to call him Uncle Alfred; and Mary screwed up her little mouth, and evidently rather liked the aggravation to Mohun pride. 'Poor Maurice, so he had a skeleton! Well, I don't see how it can hurt us.
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