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Moreover, schools were multiplied both in Prague and elsewhere with unwearying zeal; till, in addition to the sixteen which flourished in the capital, there were at Laun, Salz, Klattau, Leitmeritz, and Chrudim, seminaries, each of which was presided over by a master, of whose fitness to communicate sound and wholesome learning, the Carolinum itself had approved.
But you soon escape from the mountains, and then, for many miles, the eye finds little on which it need pine to linger, more attractive, at least, than a wide extent of cultivation. The principal towns through which you pass are Laun and Schlan, neither of them large or very prosperous; the rest are mere villages.
Landlord, do you mean to tell me any one could land? And if not, what's the use of your inn standing here?" "Naw, sir, nawbody cud laun' joost neaw. Lee-ast waas, nut to ca' fur naw yell to dry hissen."
Agnes thought for a moment and then wrinkled her forehead. "He was never taken by van Laun." "But I've seen one." "Where?" "He gave one to Lady Barbara Neave." Her forehead wrinkled in deeper lines of perplexity. "I didn't know he even knew her. . . . He never mentioned her name; I suppose he thought I should disapprove."
She therefore at least I thocht sae kent perfectly weel how the laun lay; an' if I didna mak a guid use o' the impression I had made in my turn for this I thocht I saw too in sundry little nameless things the faut was my ain, as I didna want such encouragement as a modest and virtuous girl could, under the circumstances, haud oot to a lover.
I couldn't build all sorts of wonderful hopes on his being a prisoner and then, perhaps, have to go through the whole thing again. . . . Mother's quite certain, of course; but then mothers are like that, bless them. . . . I'll let you know, if we hear any news, Eric." "Thanks very much. By the way, can you spare me one of the van Laun photographs of him?"
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