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They were across the Menin road now, and were first to the crater, though other troops were advancing quickly from the left. They went down into the crater, shouting hoarsely, and hurling bombs at Germans, who were caught like rats in a trap, and scurried up the steep sides beyond, firing before rolling down again, until at least two hundred bodies lay dead at the bottom of this pit of hell.
After an exordium about the cruelty of the Spanish tyranny and the enormous expense entailed by the war upon the Netherlands, Menin, who, as usual, was the spokesman, alluded to the difficulty which the States at last felt in maintaining themselves.
The thought of it made him feel quite hot; and he was so far forgetting himself as to be on the point of taking off his cap to cool his forehead, when Gyp caught his arm, and a murmur of horror ran through the assembly. 'Forbear! as you value your credit! cried Ruba. 'And your gentility! exclaimed Dubb. 'And your influence! called out Dubsix. 'And your success! shouted Menin.
It was funny, but I wished to see Madame Menin. A sound, and I heard my opposite neighbor getting to work. He is a hydrographer, and engraves maps for a neighboring publisher. I never could get up as early as he. The willow seemed to have made great progress during the summer.
'The likeness is good, pronounced Dubsix. 'Flattering, affirmed Menin. 'I can think of nothing to say, confessed Atub. 'Come and look in our mirror, said Gyp, taking Yellow-cap by the arm and leading him to the end of the room. Now, against the wall at this end hung a very odd specimen of a looking-glass.
Among these sixteen were Van Zuylen, Van Nyvelt, the Seigneur de Warmont, the Advocate of Holland, Paul Buys, Joost de Menin, and John van Olden-Barneveldt. A noble example was thus set at once to their fellow citizens by these their representatives a manful step taken forward in the path where Orange had so long been leading.
As is the name of Ypres to the Englishman, so is that of Verdun to the Frenchman, invested even with a more poignant significance, since the countryside where so many sons of France laid down their lives was their own adored mother-land, indivisibly part of themselves, as those grim, water-logged flats north and south of the Menin road could never be to a Lancashire or London boy.
'It is the court-dress of conspirators, added Dubb. 'We are clothed in the unwritten pages of history, continued Dubsix. 'We shall be red hereafter, said Menin, archly. 'Because we rose against the tyrant, concluded Atub, with a sigh. 'They are apt to be rather stupid at this hour in the morning, remarked Gyp, turning to Yellow-cap, 'but they will get warmed to it presently.
You told them that I was away, and they said they were very sorry." "Especially the lady. She puffed and panted and sighed: 'Dear Monsieur Mouillard! How unlucky we are, Madame Menin; we have just come to Paris as he has gone to Italy. My husband and I would have liked so much to see him! You may think it fanciful, but I should like above all things to look round his rooms.
Madame Lorinet couldn't tear herself away from it. 'Nothing but men, she said, 'have you noticed that, Jules? 'Well, Madame, I said, 'that's just how it is here; except for me, and I don't count, only gentlemen come here. I've kept house for bachelors where well, there are not many "That will do, Madame Menin; that will do. I know you always think too highly of me. Hasn't Lampron been here?"
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