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Everybody knew, also, that John Stavely was not expecting anybody by the boat or any freight, either; and Stavely must have known that everybody knew this, still it made no difference to him; he liked to seem to himself to be expecting a hundred thousand tons of saddles by this boat, and so he went on all his life, enjoying being faithfully on hand to receive and receipt for those saddles, in case by any miracle they should come.
Whilst all were saluting, Lieutenant Stavely, R.N., and Captain J. Watson, A.D.C., standing on the west side of the wall ran up a brilliant silk Union Jack to the top of their flagstaff, hauling the halyard taut as the flag flapped smartly in the breeze. It had barely begun to ascend when Lieutenant Milford and Effendi Bakr, at the adjacent pole, ran up the Egyptian flag.
Everybody knew, also, that John Stavely was not expecting anybody by the boat or any freight, either; and Stavely must have known that everybody knew this, still it made no difference to him; he liked to seem to himself to be expecting a hundred thousand tons of saddles by this boat, and so he went on all his life, enjoying being faithfully on hand to receive and receipt for those saddles, in case by any miracle they should come.
Whereas Stavely was the only individual in the entire nation who was not his cousin.
Then him and his little Galloway took themselves off, without more words about it. Here it is, and Mr. Latrigg's writing on it or I wasn't christened Hannah Stavely." Harry opened it a little anxiously; but his heart lightened as he read, DEAR HARRY, If you show the enclosed slip of paper to your old friend Hannah Stavely, she will give you a hundred pounds for it.
The River Stavely ran between; and just under the window of the North Tower is the prettiest copse you ever saw. That was from one side of the tower. From the other side you looked into the court-yard. As a boy, I liked the court-yard just as well as the moor; for the pigeons, the sparrows, the horses and the dogs were all there. As a man, I liked the moor better.
Well, I had jolly good times in Castle Stavely once upon a time." "Yet, you like our kitchen!" she again urged, in a maze of wonderment. "I like everything here," he answered; "everything everything, you understand!" he said, looking meaningly into her eyes. "Then you'll like the wedding Sophie's wedding," she answered, in a little confusion.
They led them in a body to a heath between Kendal and Stavely, and there over two thousand men swore, 'that as they had their lands by the sword, they would keep them by the same. So you see, Julius, they were gentlemen before the feudal system existed; they never put a finger under its authority, and they have long survived its fall." "Well, for all that, they make poor servants."
Everybody knew, also, that John Stavely was not expecting anybody by the boat or any freight, either; and Stavely must have known that everybody knew this, still it made no difference to him; he liked to seem to himself to be expecting a hundred thousand tons of saddles by this boat, and so he went on all his life, enjoying being faithfully on hand to receive and receipt for those saddles, in case by any miracle they should come.
He laughed a little uneasily as he said it. His eyes ran through the document. "The Honourable Tom Ferrol, of Stavely Castle, County Galway, Ireland, bachelor, and Christine Marie Lavilette, of the Township of Bonaventure, in the Province of Lower Canada, spinster, Are hereby granted," etc., etc., etc., "according to the laws of the Province of Upper Canada," etc., etc., etc.
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