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Updated: June 29, 2025
The battle of Gravelines had decided the question. The intrigues of the two Cardinals at Peronne having been sustained by Egmont's victory, all parties were ready for a peace.
Long ere he returned to Peronne, the Bohemian had gone where the vanity of his dreadful creed was to be put to the final issue a fearful experience for one who had neither expressed remorse for the past, nor apprehension for the future! 'T is brave for Beauty when the best blade wins her.
"Ah, you are thinking of the Amiens road." "Yes, of course; and is not this the Amiens road?" "Oh, no; the Amiens road lies beyond those low hills to the right. You passed the turn at the first 'barriere'." "Is it possible we could have come wrong?" "Oh, Mr. Lorrequer, don't say so, I entreat of you." "And what road is this, then, my friend?" "This is the road to Albert and Peronne."
I knew that great familiarity between mistress and servant was usual among the burgher class. The smaller girl was certainly attractive, but I did not care for her acquaintance. Antoinette was the one in whose eyes I hoped to find favor, first for myself and then for Max. By her help I hoped Max might be brought to meet the Princess of Burgundy when we should reach Peronne.
Approaching Peronne as they had from the south, these new-comers had ridden in at the southern gates without intimation of this royal visitation extraordinary until they were almost face to face with guest and host. Their arrival was "a half of a quarter of an hour later than that of the king."
Quentin had secured that town for themselves, and opened their gates to their neighbor, the Lord of Mouy. He was certain of Peronne, which was commanded by Master William Bische, and, by the overtures that we and several other persons had made him, he was in great hopes that the Lord des Cordes would strike in with his interest.
If you reach Peronne before the duke, I advise you not to tarry; but if you determine to remain, you will go to The Mitre a quiet inn kept by my good friend Marcus Grote. I strongly advise you not to remain at Peronne; but if you do not see fit to follow my advice, I hope you will remain close at The Mitre until my return, which, I trust, will be within three weeks.
Great merriment followed the speech of Father de Berey. Hortense rallied the Chevalier, a good old widower, upon himself not travelling the plain way between Peronne and St. Quintin, and jestingly offered herself to travel with him, like a couple of gypsies carrying their budget of happiness pick-a-back through the world. "Better than that!" La Corne exclaimed.
The interview of Peronne followed; Charles held his visitor as a captive, and in the end compelled him to sign a treaty, of peace, on the basis of that of Conflans, which had closed the War of the Public Weal.
I knew every inch of the country the lift of the hill east of Amiens, the Roman highway that ran straight as an arrow to St Quentin, the marshy lagoons of the Somme, and that broad strip of land wasted by battle between Dompierre and Peronne.
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