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He never received a command in the navy again, but the very rich sinecures of Grand Falconer and Chief Forester of Holland were bestowed upon him, and he appears to have ended his days in peace and plenty. He was succeeded in the post of Admiral of Holland and Zeeland by Justinus de Nassau, natural son of William the Silent, a young man of much promise but of little experience.
He's got to know an awful lot about things before he can be sure just what he ought to do." "I never had any idea how big a job it is, Lew. And think what a forester must have to know. I tell you it takes a man to fill a job like that." Noon came. The boys grew hungry. "I could eat all the sandwiches we have myself," smiled Charley. "I wonder if we couldn't catch some trout to help out.
"And that reminds me," exclaimed Tom, who with a ludicrous mixture of pleasure, bashfulness, and mock anger, had been listening to what he evidently deemed a high encomium; "that we hav'nt drinked yet; have you quit drink, Archer, since I was to York? What'll you take, Mr. Forester? Gin? yes, I have got some prime gin! You never sent me up them groceries though, Archer; well, then, here's luck!
Lisbeth, resplendent in a black silk dress, with muslin apron and cap in honour of the occasion, stood at the door to meet the girls. On such a day as this, Jean, the young maid, gave place to her superior. "This is Blanche Forester," said Marjory by way of introduction; and turning to Blanche, "This is dear old Lisbeth."
"It was the forester Kell, the shameless hound; but he would play him a trick for it." Ille. "Right. He owed the fellow a drubbing already himself, and now he would have a double one, if he could only get hold of him." Hic. "He would run and tell him that a great lord wanted to speak to him here in the forest." Ille."No, no; that would scarcely answer; but where did the fellow live?"
He will see society as it is. He has abilities and generosity of mind which will make him a first-rate character, if his friends do not spoil him out of false kindness." Henry, at these words, held out his hand to his father, and gave him the promise which he desired. "But," added he, "I still have hopes from your letter I should not be surprised to see Forester at dinner to-day,"
So anon as he was armed and horsed Sir Tristram and Gouvernail rode after into the forest, and within a while he found his knight Lambegus almost wounded to the death; and Sir Tristram bare him to a forester, and charged him to keep him well.
The man I saw last spring in the forest with Collins was Lumley. I hardly noticed him at the time, but when I saw these two men together I felt sure they were the pair I had seen in the woods only the stranger wasn't Collins." "Are you quite sure?" "The man I saw at the table wasn't Collins." "Are you sure he was the man you saw in the bedroom?" Charley looked at the forester in silence.
"'Ha! said the lady, as a sudden light broke on her, 'it is the villain himself! And grasping Sir Philip Forester for it was he, and no other by the collar, she raised a cry of 'Murder, murder! seize the murderer! "At an exclamation so singular, in such a place, the company thronged into the apartment; but Sir Philip Forester was no longer there.
There were, indeed, such things as tracks in the woods, though perhaps a league apart, but the practised eye of the Canadian forester needed none; his habits of observing every peculiarity, whether on the ground or above, enabled him to keep not only a direct course, but one which avoided any obstructions or impediments to their progress.
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