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The author investigates the stability of solitary waves in the system of Schrödinger-KdV type, in which \(n\) is real valued while \(\varepsilon\) is a complex function \[ i\varepsilon_t+\varepsilon_{xx}-n \varepsilon=0,\;n_t+n_x+\beta(n^2)_x+\alpha n_{xxx}=-\bigl(|\varepsilon |^2\bigr)_x. \] The solitary waves are sought in the form \[ \varepsilon (t,x) =e^{-i\omega t}e^{iq(x-vt)} \widehat \varepsilon_{\omega,\nu}(x-\nu t),\quad n(t,x) =n_{\omega,\nu} (x-\nu t). \] Under some constraints on the data, the solitary waves do exist and their expression is found explicitly. After defining the orbital stability (which can be compared with classical Lyapunov stability in an adequate function space), the author proves this type of stability for family of solutions constructed by means of the pair of solitary waves whose existence is shown in the paper.