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Updated: May 4, 2025
He had come by slow stages from Spain, riding the greater part of the journey like Howell, fifty years earlier attended only by one faithful soldier-servant, and enduring no small suffering, and running no slight risk, upon the road. "The wolves had our provender on more than one occasion," he told them. "The wonder is they never had us or our hackneys.
"There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys," said Sancho; "but no matter what they come on, there they are, the finest ladies one could wish for, especially my lady the princess Dulcinea, who staggers one's senses."
This was the day before the girls were to move in; it was a Friday, and the Hackneys had offered to take in anything that was sent down beforehand, and suggested their coming in on the Saturday before quarter-day. 'It will prevent their breaking into another week's rent at their lodgings, Mrs. Hackney had suggested to her husband.
But, as it happened, it had not quite the desired effect; for, much though Vava liked Doreen, she remembered her sister's resolution that if they could not have friends of their own class they would have none; and as she declined to know the Montague Joneses she would certainly not have anything to do with the Hackneys.
Of native breeds, Baily found animals of all degrees of strength and size down to hackneys of fourteen hands, as well as the "vile dog-horses," or packhorses, whose faithful service to the frontier could in no wise be appreciated by a foreigner. This region of Pennsylvania was as noted for its wagons as for its horses.
There was a light in the hall, and Eva turned the handle of the door, expecting it to open; but in vain. Then it flashed upon her that she was locked out, and must either wait there for an hour and a half or else go to church; neither of which things did she wish to do. A thought then struck her, and she knocked at the Hackneys' door; but they were all out, it appeared, for she knocked in vain.
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