The Lion of Flanders, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Lion of Flanders, Vol. 2: Couperus, Fate Two years had gone by since the foreigner had set foot in Flanders, and cried: "Bow your heads, ye Flemings! ye sons of the north, yield to the children of the south, or die!" Little thought they that there had been born in Bruges a man endowed with large sagacity, and inspired with heroic courage, a man who shone forth as a bright light among his contemporaries, and to whom, as to His servant Moses, God had said: "Go, and deliver thy brethren, the children of Israel, from the thraldom of Pharaoh." When the desolating bands of the French first trod the soil of his fatherland, and darkened the horizon with the dust of their march, a secret voice spoke in Deconinck's soul, and said: "Take heed, these are in quest of slaves!" At its sound, the noble citizen quivered with an anguish and wrath: "Slaves! we slaves!" groaned he, "forbid it, oh Lord our God! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.