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"Go on and play!" he whispered with a terrible effort. "But you " "The Brabançonne! Quick!" She went, whimpering. Standing before the keyboard she pulled on her wooden gloves and struck the keys. Out over the infernal uproar below pealed the bells; the morning sky rang with the noble summons to all brave men. Once more the ancient tower trembled with the mighty out-crash of the battle hymn.
He smiled that terrifying smile of his: "With the explosion of my first bomb among their gas cylinders you are to start these bells above us. Are you afraid?" "No." "You are to play ’La Brabançonne.’ That is the signal to our trenches." "I have often played it," she said coolly. "Not in the teeth of a barbarian army. Not in the faces of a murderous soldiery."
"But it’s a grand battle anthem.... We Americans have one.... It’s out of fashion. And after all, I had rather hear ’La Brabançonne’ when the time comes.... What a terrible admission! But what Americans have done to my country is far more terrible. The nation’s sick sick!... I prefer ’La Brabançonne’ for the time being." The Prussians entered Nivelle a little before dawn.
It would be well, indeed, if our papers, instead of writing of ten-inch shells, would speak of £1,000 shells, and regimental bands occasionally finish the National Anthem and the Brabançonne and the Marseillaise with the old strain, "That's the way the money goes: Pop goes the Ten Inch." It is easy to rebuke Mr. Norman Angell and Herr Bloch for their sordid references to the cost of war; and Mr.
By morning, also, all reserves will arrive in the west salient. What is to be your signal?" "The carillon from the Nivelle belfry." "What tune?" "’La Brabançonne.’ If not that, then the tocsin on the great bell, Clovis."
For I am going to explain to you how you can strike if you want to." "I am listening," said Maryette serenely. "We may not live through it. Even my orders do not send me to do this thing; they merely permit it. Are you contented to go with me?" She nodded, the shadow of a smile on her lips. "Very well. You play the carillon?" "Yes." "You can play ’La Brabançonne’?" "Yes." "On the bells?" "Yes."
The prosecution against a Liberal journalist, De Potter, who attacked the Government's policy in Le Courier des Pays-Bas, brought about the reconciliation of the two parties against the common enemy, in 1828, just as the harsh attitude of Joseph II had caused the alliance of Van der Noot and Vonck on the eve of the Brabançonne Revolution.
Exhausted by the Brabançonne revolution, divided among themselves, they had merely shown a passive resistance to Republican propaganda and to the efforts made by their masters to induce them to take part in rationalistic worship. This last measure, however, provoked a rising among the peasantry.
He whistled "La Brabançonne" and glanced coolly about the room. One of the airmen said to another in a whisper: "There you are. Ever since they got his brother he’s been figuring on landing a whole bunch of Huns at one clip. This is going to finish him, this business." Another said: "Don’t try anything like that, Jim " "Sure, I’ll try it," interrupted the bandaged airman pleasantly.
And the French officer who came leaping up the stairs, pistol lifted, halted in astonishment to see a dead man lying beside a sack of bombs and a young girl on her knees beside him, weeping and tremblingly intoning "La Brabançonne."
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