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Smooth Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonck, and his episcopal colleague, in vain attempted to calm the Governor's wrath, which now flamed forth, in defiance of all considerations. They endeavored, without success, to palliate the presence of Orange, and the circumstances of his reception, for it was not probable that their eloquence would bring the Governor to look at the subject with their eyes.
We have nothing, therefore, to expect from the states, but to be condemned off-hand. "You don't mean, then," repeated Schetz, "to submit to the estates touching the exercise of religion?" "No, we do not!" replied the Prince, driven into a corner at last, and striking out in his turn. "We certainly do not.
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In one of the principal streets of that city there stood a handsome house, the property of that wealthy and highly-esteemed merchant Jasper Schetz. In a private room, the walls richly adorned with carving and tapestry, sat at a dark oak writing table a gentleman in a black velvet suit, having a black cap of the same material on his head.
"But," persisted Schetz," do you fairly, promise to submit to all which the states-general shall ordain, as well on this point of religious exercise in Holland and Zealand, as on all the others?" This was a home thrust. The Prince parried it for a while.
"I don't say that," returned the Prince, continuing to parry; "it is possible that we might accept it; it is possible that we might not. We are no longer in our entire rights, as we were at the time of our first submission at Ghent." "But we will make you whole," said Schetz. "That you cannot do," replied the Prince, "for you have broken the Pacification all to pieces.
Smooth Schetz, Lord of Grobbendonck, and his episcopal colleague, in vain attempted to calm the Governor's wrath, which now flamed forth, in defiance of all considerations. They endeavored, without success, to palliate the presence of Orange, and the circumstances of his reception, for it was not probable that their eloquence would bring the Governor to look at the subject with their eyes.
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