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As I have said, he was usually alone when at work, though there were, of course, some occasional exceptions, and I myself constituted such an exception. During our life at Tavistock House, I had a long and serious illness, with an almost equally long convalescence.
At seven the glass coach, which I had ordered for myself and some of my friends, came to the door. I called in Hill Street for William Marshall, M.P. for Beverley, and in Cork Street for Strutt the Member for Derby, and Hawkins the Member for Tavistock.
He went over accordingly, and found that Sir Gregory, having been desired to select a man for a special service in the country, had named him. He was to go down to Tavistock with another gentleman from the Woods and Forests, for the purpose of settling some disputed point as to the boundaries and privileges of certain mines situated there on Crown property.
Sparks of Tavistock Street, from whom Harry had purchased purchased did we say? no; taken the trinkets which he had intended to present to his Oakhurst friends; and it chanced that Mr. Sparks came to visit his brother-tradesman very soon after Mr. Warrington had disposed of his goods.
"I think I understand that," he said. He glanced at the list. "It's even shorter than I thought." "You notice, one-third of the stock's tied up in the Wentworth estate," said Tavistock. "Yes. And here's the name of Bowen's dividend clerk. Bowen is traveling in the far East.
He had expected to talk National Woolens, and this man did not even speak of it, seemed absorbed in a stock in which Tavistock did not know he had any interest whatever. "G. L. and G.?" he said. "Not much perhaps thirty thousand shares. It's been quiet for a long time. It's an investment stock, you know." Dumont smiled peculiarly.
Then, attended by Zaki, he took his place in the Great Western for Tavistock. Zaki had already picked up a good deal of English, and Gregory talked to him only in that language, on their way down from the battlefield; so that he could now express himself in simple phrases. Mr.
The Edgcumbes are a Devonshire family, coming from the neighbourhood of Tavistock; the estate came to the possession of Sir Piers Edgcumbe by his marriage with Joan Durnford, of East Stonehouse, and the present house was begun by his son, Sir Richard, in 1553. It is possible that Sidonia had been a guest of Sir Richard's in the following year, when there was a notable gathering of Admirals here.
Francis Drake, the first Englishman to make himself "redoubtable to the Spaniards" on the Spanish Main, was born near Tavistock about the year 1545. He was sent to sea, as a lad, aboard a Channel coaster engaged in trade with the eastern counties, France and Zeeland.
Neverbend, even in his grimaces and civility, managed to show that he regarded himself as decidedly No. 1 upon the occasion. 'Well, Mr. Tudor, said he, 'I think of starting on Tuesday. Tuesday will not, I suppose, be inconvenient to you? 'Sir Gregory has already told me that we are expected to be at Tavistock on Tuesday evening. 'Ah!
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