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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I trust that he will be caught," Van Voorden said; "but as for the peace, I should have no faith in it, for be sure that as soon as he is once free again he would repudiate it, and would at once set to work to gather, with the aid of Burgundy, a force with which he could renew the war, wipe out the disgrace that has befallen him, and take revenge upon the city that inflicted it.
"I shall be glad if you will accompany me to choose them, for indeed I am but a poor judge of such matters." "I would fain have two suits of the best armour in your store, Master Armstrong," Van Voorden said, as he entered the armourer's shop. "The cost is a matter of no account, but I want the best, and I know that no one can supply better than yourself.
Bear in mind that if you draw sword for Mynheer Van Voorden you are doing it for England." On re-entering the city gates they first went to an armourer's, where they purchased and buckled on some gilded spurs. "Truly, Albert, I can scarce believe our good fortune," Edgar said, as they left the shop.
"I heard from Van Voorden that you were going to Flanders with him. You are like to see stirring events, for Ghent has long been in insurrection against the Count of Flanders, and things are likely to come to a head erelong. Ah, and what do I see gold spurs! Then the king has knighted you. That is well, indeed, and I congratulate you most heartily.
Will you kindly bring a servant with you to carry their valises, for I had yesterday all their things removed from that room in the Tower, and at the same time had the dead bodies of the rioters carried down and thrown into the Thames." "I wish that there was more that I could do," Van Voorden said to Sir Robert Gaiton as they walked back to the city.
Two hours before daybreak we will muster in our companies, and an hour later start for Bruges." Among those who shouted loudest, "We will fight!" were the two young knights. They had, as soon as it was known that Van Artevelde and his party had entered the town, gone with Van Voorden to the house of a friend of his in the great square.
He was a correspondent of Van Voorden's, and to him the merchant had written, asking him to secure lodgings for him and his party for a day or two. Van Voorden was well known to him, for the merchant had occasion to cross to Flanders three or four times every year, and his correspondent often came over to London.
"I will gladly accept their services, Van Voorden, and, as you say, the people will certainly draw a good augury from their presence." The merchant left the room, and returned in a minute with the two young knights.
"A letter from Mynheer Van Voorden to ask me to accompany him to Flanders, whither he is about to sail. He has asked Edgar too, and his father has consented." "Read me the letter, Albert. 'Tis a fair offer," he said, when Albert came to the end, "and pleases me much.
"We need go no further, sirs; the house is clearly on fire, and smoke has made its way through the peephole that I spoke of." They waited for another half hour, and then they heard a heavy crash on the other side of the stone barrier. "The roof has doubtless fallen in or one of the walls," Van Voorden said.
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