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Excerpt from The Pastor's Fire-Side, Vol. 3 of 4: A Novel
His official duty of this morning passed with a deputation from the merchants of Ostend. He had received his father's commands to that purpose, to holda con ference with them respecting the sanction which the Spanish Monarch had granted to their Indian trade, to the great um brage of the mercantile interests of Great Britain and Holland. The Emperor had insisted on this guarantee of Spain and the Queen, with her usual impatience, ordered it to be accorded without reserve. 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.
