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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."
"Nothing to do with me?" cried Ulrich. "Is he out of his senses? What sin have I committed, what does he...." "He knows that you are Navarrete, the Eletto of Herenthals, the conqueror of Aalst, and therefore...." "Therefore?" "Why of course.
The Antwerp of those days was called "as rich as the Indies;" the project under consideration was the possibility of manoeuvring this abode of wealth into the hands of the mutineers; the whole Spanish army in the Netherlands being about to follow the example of the regiments in Aalst. The mother was the friend and counsellor of the son.
In Aalst the mutineers received him with eager joy, harsh and repellent as he appeared, they cheerfully obeyed him; for he could hold out to them a prospect, which lured a bright smile to the bearded lips of the grimmest warrior. If power was the word, he scarcely understood how to use it aright, for wholly absorbed in himself, he led a joyless life of dissatisfied longing and gloomy reverie.
The town had surrendered on favourable terms and pillage was forbidden. Baulked of their expected booty, the Spanish troops, to whom large arrears of pay were due, mutinied. Under their own "eletto" they marched to Aalst, where they were joined by other mutineers, and soon a large force was collected together, who lived by plunder and were a terror to the country.
Here stood six thousand Walloons, to defend the half-finished wall, and behind them large bodies of armed citizens. "The men from Aalst have come!" echoed from lip to lip. Curses, wails of grief, yells of savage fury, blended with the thunder of the artillery and the ringing of the alarm bells.
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.
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.
"Nothing to do with me?" cried Ulrich. "Is he out of his senses? What sin have I committed, what does he...." "He knows that you are Navarrete, the Eletto of Herenthals, the conqueror of Aalst, and therefore...." "Therefore?" "Why of course.
I served with honor, and have done some doughty deeds; let that content you." This angered Ruth, who resolutely exclaimed: "No, a thousand times no! You are the Eletto of Aalst, the pillager of cities, and this cannot be swept aside as easily as the dust from the floor. I.... I am only a feeble girl; but father, he will never give his hand to the blood-stained man in Spanish garb!
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