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All this was said in a broken manner, and amid many sighs; from time to time signs of the cross; low mumblings as of prayers; and plunges at each church or each cross they passed. He took his meals in the coach, ate very little, was alone at night, but with good precautions taken. He did not know until the morrow that he was going to Dourlens. He showed no emotion thereupon.
This was an extremely small, yellow, dried up, energetic Spanish captain, with a long red beard, Hernan Tello de Porto Carrero by came, governor of the neighbouring city of Dourlens, who had conceived this plan for obtaining possession of Amiens. Having sent these disguised soldiers on before him, he had passed the night with his men in ambush until the signal should sound.
All this was said in a broken manner, and amid many sighs; from time to time signs of the cross; low mumblings as of prayers; and plunges at each church or each cross they passed. He took his meals in the coach, ate very little, was alone at night, but with good precautions taken. He did not know until the morrow that he was going to Dourlens. He showed no emotion thereupon.
Christopher Mondragon that miracle of human endurance, who had been an old man when the great duke arrived in the Netherlands was still governor of Antwerp citadel, and men were to speak of him yet once more before he passed from the stage. I return from this digression to the siege of Dourlens. The death of La Motte made no difference in the plans of Fuentes.
The letters sent to and from the different prisons are read by so many people, and pass through so many hands, that it is not surprizing we have not heard from each other. As far as I can learn, they had obtained leave, after their first arrest, to remove to a house in the vicinity of Dourlens for a few days, on account of Mrs.
After visiting them, and making some ineffectual applications for their relief, he came to the neighbourhood of Dourlens, expecting to find an asylum with an uncle, who had hitherto escaped the general persecution of the gentry.
Punning on these names he was wont to say, that he was frank for all good people, but a hangman for heretics; and he acted up to his gibe. Foiled at Ham, Fuentes had returned to the siege of Catelet, and had soon reduced the place. He then turned his attention again to Dourlens, and invested that city.
After visiting them, and making some ineffectual applications for their relief, he came to the neighbourhood of Dourlens, expecting to find an asylum with an uncle, who had hitherto escaped the general persecution of the gentry.
The king, by making peace, could restore his kingdom to prosperity, relieve the distress of his subjects, and get back all his lost cities Calais, Ardres, Dourlens, Blavet, and many more without any expense of treasure or of blood.
Christopher Mondragon that miracle of human endurance, who had been an old man when the great duke arrived in the Netherlands was still governor of Antwerp citadel, and men were to speak of him yet once more before he passed from the stage. I return from this digression to the siege of Dourlens. The death of La Motte made no difference in the plans of Fuentes.
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