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The Burgomaster’s Wife
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CHAPTER XXII
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"There is no room in order there." "That can be arranged later.

At any rate we'll invite him to dinner to-morrow, he may have something to tell us.

There is good marrow in the young man.

He begged me not to let him remain idle, but make him of use in the service.

Jan Van der Does has already put him in the right place, the new commandant looks into people's hearts." Barbara mingled in the conversation, Peter, though it was a week-day, ordered a jug of wine to be brought instead of the beer, and an event that had not occurred for weeks happened: the master of the house sat at least fifteen minutes with his family after the food had been removed, and told them of the rapid advance of the Spaniards, the sad fate of the fugitive Englishmen, who had been disarmed and led away in sections, the brave defence the Britons, to whose corps Georg belonged, had made at Alfen, and of another hot combat in which Don Gaytan, the right-hand and best officer of Valdez, was said to have fallen.


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