Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 83 Hague in a r a claim to late King of;‘iTcnce to the i1 instructions Whether he i if earnestness !’ his Royal Dutch states- Nassau-Saar- of Athlone, a for the office done little as luring a brief: o parts in the Dutch troops the disposal of iobate. Marl- a salary equal he field. The i, a small town had the year us intention of ‘gne. Another bled at Cleves; himself with a: ul for upwards tly impeded by; and a French stablished itself ce it cannonaded Je to introduce a perseverance of ud with success. was to try and ir 1-Sorts were ineffei chapter{Section 4CHAPTER III. Within eight days after the war had been proclaimed Marl- borough was on. his way to Holland. His wife accompanied him to Margate. Contrary winds prevented his yacht for five days from putting to sea; and there are some indications that the interval was passed by the lady in venting her ill-humour, and by the soft-hearted general in uttering entreaties for forgiveness and meek protestations of love and submission. At length the moment of parting came, and Marlborough tore himself from the society of his beloved Sarah. For hours he continued on the deck, sweeping the cliffs with his perspective glass in the hope of catching a last glimpse of her figure. When the land had faded from sight he retired in an agony of grief to his cabin.
If you but knew what I now feel, such was his passionate appeal to his wife,
you would endeavour to be easy with me. Then I should be most happy. It is you only who can give me true content. It is impossible to read this letter without recalling the most beautiful passage in the
Iliad, nor to avoid hoping that Andromache asserted her sway over the noble Hector by gentler …
