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In the vicinity of Aalst they assembled again in still greater numbers; but on this occasion they provided themselves with rapiers, firearms, and halberds, placed sentries at all the approaches, which they also barricaded with carts and carriages.
On the morning of November 4th, under the cover of a thick fog, the treacherous Spaniards, commanded by Romero, Vargas and Valdez entered the fortress. The citizens, among them Adam, learned this fact with rage and terror, but the mutineers of Aalst had not yet collie. "He is keeping them back," Ruth had said the day before. "Antwerp, our home, is sacred to him!"
"Are you not near me? Your heart and mine have belonged to each other since that day in the snow. If my father is angry because I serve other masters than his, you, yes you, must reconcile us again. I could stay in Aalst no longer." "With the mutineers?" she asked sadly. "Ulrich, Ulrich, that you should return to us thus!"
Nor was there any lack of gold or silver in the treasury of the guild-hall, the strong boxes of the merchants, the chests of the citizens. The silver table-utensils, the gold ornaments of the women, the children's gifts from godparents fell into the hands of the conquerors, while a hundred and seventy rich villages near Aalst were compelled to furnish food for the mutineers.
How beautiful and charming he found life; how greatly he praised his destiny! The sun was setting behind pleasant Aalst as he approached, and the sky looked as if it was strewn with roses. "Beautiful, beautiful!" he murmured, pointing out to his lieutenant the brilliant hues in the western horizon.
She detained the smith in the house, repeating her former words: "The men from Aalst are not coming; he is keeping diem back." Just at that moment the young apprentice, whose parents lived on the Scheldt, rushed with dishevelled hair into the workshop, gasping: "The men from Aalst are here. They crossed in peatboats and a galley.
Nor was there any lack of gold or silver in the treasury of the guild-hall, the strong boxes of the merchants, the chests of the citizens. The silver table-utensils, the gold ornaments of the women, the children's gifts from godparents fell into the hands of the conquerors, while a hundred and seventy rich villages near Aalst were compelled to furnish food for the mutineers.
It's not his way to forgive and forget." "And did he know that my mother was so near to him, that she was in Aalst." "All, all!" "He will forgive the dead. Surely, surely he will, if I beseech him, when we are united, if I tell him...." "Poor fellow! You think all this is so easy. It is long since I have had so hard a task, yet I must speak plainly. He will have nothing to do with you, either."
But Ulrich's approach quickly cheered and rejuvenated her. Florette now knew what her son had experienced in life, what had moved his heart, his soul, and could not contradict him, when he told her that power was the highest prize of existence. The Eletto's ambitious mind could not be satisfied with little Aalst.
On the morning of November 4th, under the cover of a thick fog, the treacherous Spaniards, commanded by Romero, Vargas and Valdez entered the fortress. The citizens, among them Adam, learned this fact with rage and terror, but the mutineers of Aalst had not yet collie. "He is keeping them back," Ruth had said the day before. "Antwerp, our home, is sacred to him!"
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