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But the end of these calumnies and anonymous charges was not yet. Meantime the opposition to the truce was confined to the States of Zeeland and two cities of Holland. Those cities were very important ones, Amsterdam and Delft, but they were already wavering in their opposition.
Some impulse urged her to go out of doors, and as she wrapped her mantle around her and went downstairs, the smell of leather rising from the bales piled in layers on the lower story, which she had scarcely noticed before, seemed unendurable. She longed for her mother, her friends in Delft, and her quiet, cheerful home.
But one thing in Delft disappointed me; I saw no storks, and I expected the air to be dark with storks. "I don't think there are any now," said Robert, apologetically, "though Brederode would know." "Isn't it true that the stork's the patron saint of Delft?" I asked.
Behind the bier came all the other boys with the most mournful expression upon their faces they could muster for the occasion, and thus they carried the 'dead fair' through the principal streets of the town, and at last buried it in the 'Scheveningsche Boschjes. But this custom is now a thing of the past, for the Kermis at The Hague has been abolished, even as it has been abolished in most of the other towns throughout the kingdom, for all authorities were agreed that fair-time promoted vice and drunkenness, and the old-fashioned Kermis is now only to be found in Rotterdam, Leyden, Delft, and some of the smaller provincial towns and villages.
It went off admirably. If you, with your magnificent voice, will only " "Pray, Meister Wilhelm?" "No, dear lady, you ought not to refuse. Doctor Groot says, that when a girl in Delft, no one could support the tenor like you, and if you, Frau von Nordwyk, and Herr Van Aken's oldest daughter "
"Wasn't it here you had the fire which nearly ruined the city, hundreds of years ago, and the parent storks wouldn't leave their babies, but died covering them up with their wings? And didn't Holland take the stork, after that, for a kind of of motto for the whole country because it was so brave and faithful?" "Yes," Robert admitted, "Delft is not tired of storks, but storks are tired of Delft.
"There was such a noise, both in Delft, Rotterdam, and Dort," said Leicester, "in crying 'God save the Queen! as if she had been in Cheapside." Her own subjects could not be more loyal than were the citizens and yeomen of Holland.
The congregation then repaired to the house of their pastor, and partook of a farewell repast together; after which they proceeded to Delft Harbor, and there the Pilgrims embarked.
Bessemer sat in the bay window of the dining-room reading the paper from end to end. At five Travis bestirred herself. It was Victorine's afternoon out. Travis set the table, spreading a cover of blue denim edged with white braid, which showed off the silver and the set of delft her great and never-ending joy to great effect. Tea was had at half-past five.
With a hasty movement she raised her head, looked steadily into the young man's handsome face and said with dignity: "You see only the exterior, Junker von Dornburg; three years have made many changes within." "Junker von Dornburg," he repeated, shaking his waving locks. "I was Junker Georg in Delft. Very different things have happened to us, dear lady, very different things.
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