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Updated: June 23, 2025
The banks were not so high, the willows disappeared from along the margin, and pleasant hills stood all along its course and marked their profile on the sky. In a little while the canal, coming to its last lock, began to discharge its water-houses on the Oise; so that we had no lack of company to fear.
I allow, no age has been altogether without something of this nature, and some very happy projects are left to us as a taste of their success; as the water-houses for supplying of the city of London with water, and, since that, the New River both very considerable undertakings, and perfect projects, adventured on the risk of success.
"She is an odd girl," said the count, as I gave back the letter, "so full of fun, so happy, so bright, so quick always on her tiptoes. Come, you are tired; you have ridden far in the dust. I shall make you glad to be here." A groom took my horse, and the count led me down a wooded slope to the lakeside. Octagonal water-houses, painted white, lay floating at anchor near us.
The banks were not so high, the willows disappeared from along the margin, and pleasant hills stood all along its course and marked their profile on the sky. In a little while the canal, coming to its last lock, began to discharge its water-houses on the Oise; so that we had no lack of company to fear.
Nothing of this sort was lost upon the painters, who faithfully recorded every particular, not omitting the ships the 'water-houses, as they called them which swung at anchor in the bay. Finally, the governor departed as ceremoniously as he had come, leaving orders with his people to supply the Spanish general with all he might require till further instructions should come from the emperor.
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