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His air was ceremonial as he laid, reverently, the sample pieces on the table before her, but it seemed to Honora that he spoke as one who recalls departed glories, who held a conviction that the Lowestoft would never be used again.
Only peace could keep the European states disunited, and it was on their disunion that Lewis counted for success in his design of seizing Flanders, a design which was now all but ripe for execution. At the outset of the war therefore he offered his mediation, and suggested the terms of a compromise. But his attempt was fruitless, and the defeat off Lowestoft forced him to more effective action.
This happened on a Saturday morning, and on that afternoon Roger Carbury rode over to Lowestoft, to a meeting there on church matters at which his friend the bishop presided. After the meeting was over he dined at the inn with half a dozen clergymen and two or three neighbouring gentlemen, and then walked down by himself on to the long strand which has made Lowestoft what it is.
Then when you protest that there may be a collision at midnight, the man in the boat says merrily, "Oh, the wind will keep you off," as though winds never changed or dropped. I should like to see moorings done that way, at Cowes, say, or in Southampton Water. Such as it was, there it was, and trusting in the wind and God's providence we lay criss-cross in Lowestoft South Basin.
There is a little Lowestoft tea-service that was picked up only last week at Christie and Manson's, a turquoise blue crackle jar that is supposed to be priceless, and a pair of "Long Eliza" vases, which her hostess loves as much as she does her toy terrier, and far better than she loves her husband. What will become of her, Vera Nevill, if Mrs.
"Why, Bertram, however in the world did you find out about all that?" "I didn't. I just guessed it and it seems 'the boy guessed right the very first time," laughed Bertram, teasingly, but with a tender light in his eyes. "Oh, and I suppose you'll be sending a frosted cake to the Lowestoft lady, too, eh?" Billy's chin rose to a defiant stubbornness.
Lowestoft was a frequent attraction for a youthful ramble—perhaps almost too far, unless one could manage to get a lift in a little yellow-painted black-bodied vehicle called a whisky, which was grandfather’s property, and into the shafts of which could be put any spare quadruped, whether donkey, or mule, or pony, it mattered little, and which afforded a considerable relief when a trip as far as Lowestoft was determined on.
For instance, during the two days, three years ago, that a tremendous storm committed such havoc among the telegraph wires around London, cutting off all communication with the lines connected with the Channel cables at Dover, Lowestoft, etc., it was of common occurrence for London merchants to communicate with Paris through New York.
It must be remembered that East Anglia was notorious for the frequency of the disease in question. But FitzGerald's fears concerning Posh were not realised. Levi was a Lowestoft fishmonger, referred to in the footnote of Two Suffolk Friends, p. 108. The difference between "sunk" and "swum" herring nets would be unintelligible to a modern herring fisher.
My first discovery was that to most of the good people of Lowestoft the name of the man who had honoured the town by his preference was unknown. A schoolmaster had never heard of either FitzGerald or Omar. It was plain that the educated classes of Lowestoft could help me in my search but little. So I went down to the harbour basins and the fish wharves, and asked of "Posh" and his "governor."
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