The Sea Beggars (2016)
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With two columns of mounted lancers at his back he rode along the main street toward the heart of the city, where stood the tower he was building. No bells rang, no crowds of citizens rushed out to greet him—not even a beggar appeared to ply the governor’s generosity for a coin. He rode through Antwerp as if through a graveyard.
As he rode, he remembered how he had first seen this city, standing among her elms and poplars like a bride in her bower; then the streets had surged with carts and coac...hes, merchants on foot surrounded by their retainers, packmen bawling out their wares from door to door, messengers racing to and from the Bourse. How it had amazed him then to hear Greek and German spoken here as freely as Dutch or French! The streets for all their traffic were clean as church floors; the houses, trimmed with paint and gilt, were kept like monuments.
Now the wind tossed dead leaves and garbage along the pavement and the houses were decaying into rubble.
The people had left, the many-tongued merchants, the packmen, the rich and the poor; not all had left, but enough to hollow out the city like a shell.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
With two columns of mounted lancers at his back he rode along the main street toward the heart of the city, where stood the tower he was building. No bells rang, no crowds of citizens rushed out to greet him—not even a beggar appeared to ply the governor’s generosity for a coin. He rode through Antwerp as if through a graveyard.
As he rode, he remembered how he had first seen this city, standing among her elms and poplars like a bride in her bower; then the streets had surged with carts and coac...hes, merchants on foot surrounded by their retainers, packmen bawling out their wares from door to door, messengers racing to and from the Bourse. How it had amazed him then to hear Greek and German spoken here as freely as Dutch or French! The streets for all their traffic were clean as church floors; the houses, trimmed with paint and gilt, were kept like monuments.
Now the wind tossed dead leaves and garbage along the pavement and the houses were decaying into rubble.
The people had left, the many-tongued merchants, the packmen, the rich and the poor; not all had left, but enough to hollow out the city like a shell.
What to read after The Sea Beggars?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Cecelia Holland to read onlineMoreLess
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