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While we ate, Richard spoke freely of our intendings; and in return Ephraim Yeates was able to confirm Mr. Gilbert Stair's war news to the letter. For all his Tory bias and prejudice, it seemed that Margery's father had spoken by the book.
Stair's well-known bonnet with its tall feather was on Eben's head, and after every shot or two, he waved it in the air and shouted to the assailants to come on. The half-dozen sappers who had tried the first rush were now lying flat behind stones, and one lay bunched up as if wounded. The false Stair ran to and fro firing the muskets over the shoulders of his auxiliary potato-sacks.
I apprehend that the Earl of Stair's regiment, to the majority of which he was promoted on the 20th of July, 1724, was then quartered in Scotland; for all the letters in my hand, from that time to the 6th of February, 1726, are dated from thence, and particularly from Douglas, Stranraer, Hamilton, and Ayr.
But Gilbert Stair's next question dispelled the mystery. "If you should die intestate, this Septimus would be your heir?" "As next of kin, I should suppose he would. But I have nothing to devise." "True; and yet" he paused again as if the wording of it were not easy. "Be free to speak your mind, Mr. Stair," said I. "'Tis this," he cried, gathering himself as with an effort.
He approved of young people enjoying themselves, after their work was done Diarmid's emphasis on the "after" was strong. As they went Jean Garland pointed out a pony track high on the fells. "Careless fellows," she said, "that must have been Stair's band. For both Fergus and Agnew are more careful!"
At this Jennifer flung himself from his saddle with a great laugh. "If you can," he qualified. "But enough of these 'by your leave, sirs. I am near famished, and as dry as King David's bottle in the smoke. Will you give me bite and sup before I mount and ride again? 'Tis a long gallop back to town on an empty stomach, and with a gullet as dry as Mr. Gilbert Stair's wit."
The 'end' to which or for which all the Church patrimony is here said to be given, does not seem to be merely the 'charge of the poor'; though Protestants as well as Catholics often urge that as fundamentally true. It seems to be rather the whole group of good objects which are gathered together. The Latin and German originals must be consulted. Stair's 'Institutions, ii. 3, 36.
"Say, rather, if you'll overlook discrepancies," answered Errington, smiling back there was something infectious about Stair's geniality. "I'm afraid a boiled shirt is out of the question unless I go home to fetch it!" Diana stared at him. Was he really going to stay to accept the invitation after all that had occurred?
And she craned forward just in time to see the man with the tray, two steps from the top, receive in his stomach a kick which lifted, it seemed, the wretched creature and all that he carried in a single flight to the bottom of the stair. After a little clash of plates and cups on the impact of the kick, there was a sensible silence before the appalling crash and thud at the stair's foot.
It was something she had never felt before, though almost any other woman would have diagnosed at once. It was, in fact, nothing less than her first twinge of jealousy. She chose to forget all the wise precepts by which she had regulated Stair's conduct toward her. She forgot how she had carefully explained to him that all the duties were to be on his side, and all the benefits on hers.
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