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Excerpt from Historiettes, or Tales of Continental Life, Vol. 3 of 3
Even Soignies, whose thick shade and lofty trunks are hallowed by our victory, is doomed to undergo the general fate. The sovereign of the Netherlands had then already sold it to the National Bank; and it grieved me to hear the axe resounding in its depths.
As a vista marked to me the conclusion of the Forest, the church of Waterloo, recognized from many a print, stood fronting it, though on the right of the road. Here, said I, at length, and hastened my pace.
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