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Some of the agitators whispered, "He will be off, he will escape from us!" Others replied, "A vessel is waiting for him at Schevening, a French craft. Tyckelaer has seen her." "Honest Tyckelaer! Hurrah for Tyckelaer!" the mob cried in chorus.
A light bark of marvellous speed constantly ran backward and forward between Schevening and the eastern coast of our island. By this vessel William received a succession of letters from persons of high note in the Church, the state, and the army. Two of the seven prelates who had signed the memorable petition, Lloyd, Bishop of St.
"Go! for Heaven's sake, go!" she said; "it seems they are going to force the gate." John de Witt hastily got in, sat himself down by the side of his brother, and, fastening the apron of the carriage, called out to the coachman, "To the Tol-Hek!" The Tol-Hek was the iron gate leading to the harbor of Schevening, in which a small vessel was waiting for the two brothers.
There is a mile or so of promenade with stone seats at intervals, a shingle dotted with big rocks, a modicum of slate-coloured sand, like that of Schevening, in Holland, and blue hills opposite, like those of Carlingford Lough. The promenade is kerbed by a massive sea wall of limestone, and here and there flights of stone steps lead to the water's edge.
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