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Absurd and thank God for it. And poor Francis Lingen! She could afford to laugh at that. Francis Lingen was as capable of kissing the Duchess of Westbury at whose horrible party she had been the other night as herself. She felt very safe, and enormously relieved.
On the 8th August the Catholic general was before Olden-zaal which he took in three days, and then advanced to Lingen.
Urquhart's eyes took a chill tinge a hard and pebbly stare. "I don't know what you mean," he said. "Men always say that, especially when they know very well. Of course I mean the Macartneys. You didn't suppose I was thinking of the Poplolly?" The Poplolly, I regret to say, was Francis Lingen, whom Vera abhorred. The term was opprobrious, and inexact. But Urquhart shrouded himself in ice.
That hand on the shoulder, now, when Urquhart was last here. Too much. There must be no more of it, though he could still feel the softness of her in the tips of his fingers. Thus he braced himself. He held good cards: but he didn't know how good. Lingen was exceedingly gratified by Lucy's letter.
On the 8th August the Catholic general was before Olden-zaal which he took in three days, and then advanced to Lingen.
Here also James would have been only too happy; but nobody else would touch it. Lucy never played cards; Urquhart, having better things to do, said that he never did. Margery Dacre and Lingen preferred retirement and their own company. Lingen, indeed, was exhibiting his heart to the pale-haired girl as if it was a specimen-piece.
On the 14th September he made a retrograde movement towards the Rhine, leaving two thousand five hundred men in Lingen.
Maurice, giving profound thanks to God for his enemy's infatuation, passed by Lingen, and having now, with his cousin's reinforcements, a force of nine thousand foot and three thousand horse, threw himself into Coeworden, strengthened and garrisoned that vital fortress which Spinola would perhaps have taken as easily as he had done Lingen, made all the neighbouring positions secure, and then fell back towards Wesel on the Rhine, in order to watch his antagonist.
Lucy wasn't sure whether she did or not. It made her self-conscious and perverse at once. All this was bewildering, made her feel stupid, and annoyed her. But she really liked Francis Lingen, and had been amused to discover how much he was "Francis" in her private mind. Certainly he was very elegant.
On the 21st and 22nd October, Ootmarsum and Oldenzaal were taken, and on the 28th the little army came before Lingen. This important city surrendered after a fortnight's siege.
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