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Meanwhile, Tostig embarked at Harfleur; but instead of sailing to the northern coasts of England, he made for one of the Flemish ports: and there, under various pretences, new manned the Norman vessels with Flemings, Fins, and Northmen.
Well, take the tram-car to Harfleur you know? as far as it goes. I'll be at the terminus with a car. What time must you be in?" "I can get late leave till ten, I think," she said. "Good! That gives us heaps of time. We'll lunch and tea in Caudebec, and have some sandwiches for the road home." "And if the car breaks down?" "It won't," said Peter. "You're lucky in love, aren't you?"
"The people were exhausted by taxes, civil wars, and military executions; and they had fallen into that worst of all states of mind, when the independence of one's country is thought no longer a paramount and sacred object. Henry invades France, takes Harfleur, and wins the great battle of Agincourt. Henry conquers Normandy.
She was but a child in those days, not so much in years as in thought, and brought up together as we were I have always regarded her rather in the light of a sister." Guy's quiet stay at Summerley came to an end suddenly. A fortnight after the marriage of Agnes, Harfleur was besieged by the French by land and water, and the Earl of Dorset, its governor, sent to England for aid.
I had told Aquitaine and other lords who consulted me that disaster would happen when the French army met the English. That much I read in the stars. And though, when Henry marched north from Harfleur with so small a following, it seemed to me that victory could scarce attend him against the host of France, I went over my calculations many times and could not find that I had made an error.
It was to secure his boy's claims that the Earl of Cambridge seized on the king's departure to conspire with Lord Scrope and Sir Thomas Grey to proclaim the Earl of March king. The plot however was discovered and the plotters beheaded before the king sailed in August for the Norman coast. His first exploit was the capture of Harfleur.
There was further parley. The French consented to give up the demand for Harfleur; but they required that Talbot should remain as a hostage until the conditions were fulfilled. The English protested.
But while Henry continued to exact severe terms, the French gave him constant excuses for proceeding in the war, by their efforts to recover Harfleur, which, however, were constantly defeated by the activity of the English monarch and his officers.
Women, now and all that kind of thing I was positively ignorant of but to be sure, one quickly learns in Paris." For one night, Harfleur asked me in his usual sneering tone how I was going to spend my evening. "I am going out to a charming soiree at the house of Madame de L'Estarre, the most charming woman in Paris," said he. "'Then I shall accompany you, I said, fired by his insulting tone.
The one nobleman, in consideration of his royal blood, was simply beheaded; the other was drawn and quartered. We hear of no more attempts of the kind during Henry's reign. With a fleet of one thousand five hundred sail Henry crossed the sea and landed without opposition at Chef de Caux, near Harfleur, at the mouth of the Seine.
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