Batavia

Publié par Wentworth Press, le 02 août 2018

306 pages

Résumé

Excerpt from Batavia On a beautiful day in June of the year 1613, two people, an old woman and a young man, were standing on the quay of Texel at Amsterdam, near the tower of the fish-packers, which laves its feet in the vast basin of the Ye. The woman seemed to be a sufferer, for she was pale and thin, and a dry cough which was occasionally heard gave evidence of slow pulmonary trouble that was sapping her life. She looked down sadly, lifting her eyes at times to him who accompanied her, as if she but waited for him to break the silence that she might speak. Leaning against the fish-packers' tower, the young mans looks wandered up and down the quay, seeming profoundly preoccupied; but he kept his eyes particularly fastened on a large merchant-ship, on board of which sailors were employed carrying trunks, boxes, and other luggage. Had any one endeavored to guess the young man's age from his face, when he was as now a prey to thoughtful revery, they would most certainly have been mistaken in it.

Le Démon de l'argent

Scènes de la vie flamande: Ce que peut souffrir une mère, Le Gentilhomme pauvre, Le Conscrit

La Guerre des Paysans

Le Gant perdu

Scènes de la vie flamande: Ce que peut souffrir une mère, Le Gentilhomme pauvre, Le Conscrit

La Tombe de fer

La Préférée; Une voix d'outre-tombe

Batavia

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