Its spire has a
slender aerial grace; on its facade are statues of the Lords of Veere
and their Ladies, Within is a little museum of antiquities, one of
whose most interesting possessions is the entry in the Veere register,
under the date July 2nd, 1608, of the marriage of Hugo Grotius with
Maria Reygersbergh of Veere, whom we have seen at Loevenstein assisting
in her husband's escape from prison. The museum is in the charge of a
blond custodian, a descendant of sea kings, whose pride in the golden
goblet which Maximilian of Burgundy, Veere's first Marquis, gave to
the town in 1551, is almost paternal. He displays it as though it
were a sacred relic, and narrates the story of Veere's indignation
when a millionaire attempted to buy it, so feelingly as to fortify
and complete one's suspicions that money after all is but dross and
the love of it the root of evil.
Chapter XX
Flushing
Middelburg once more--The Flushing baths--Shrimps and
chivalry--A Dutch boy--Charles V. at Souburg--Flushing
and the Spanish yoke--Philip and William the Silent--The
capture of Brill--A far-reaching drunken impulse--Flushing's
independence--Admiral de Ruyter--England's Revenge--The
Middelburg kermis--The aristocracy of avoirdupois--The end.
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