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I have often wondered how much travail of spirit it must have cost her to acknowledge me as her very own. One thumb, one great toe, and an ankle were decorated with greasy rags, and I was far from being ornamental. I had been hulling walnuts, too, and my stained hands served to accentuate the human scenery.
"Excuse it," Sandy murmured, smiling as Lans nursed his silk-enclosed ankle. "Hang it all, Sand! I've got to get back to civilization!" Sandy bent over the fire to conceal his feelings. "Not to-night, surely," he said. "No, but in a day or so. Morley, I I want to tell you something. Tell you why I cut and came up here right in the middle of things at home."
I had a good laugh over things, and then decided that I must do what I could for my scattered family, though my ankle seemed about ready to go by the board. So I first got down the cat and then lit the lantern and started out after Kaiser. Poor dog, he was beside himself to see me, and liked to have knocked me down in showing how glad he was.
"They took Hetty home first on account of her poor little ankle and sung 'Good Night, Ladies, at the gate. And so ended a day that was wreck and ruin for most of our sex there present.
"The occurrences of that Christmas are too familiar to most, if not all of you, to bear repetition." "And you hadn't at all a nice New Year's that time, mamma," said Rosie, softly stroking and patting the hand she held, then lifting it to her lips; for she was sitting on a stool at her mother's feet, while the others had grouped themselves around her, "suffering so with that sprained ankle."
When the watch changed, the off watch stayed up, 'stead of turning in. The storm ripped and roared around all night, and in the middle of it another man tripped and sprained his ankle, and had to knock off. The bar'l left towards day, and nobody see it go. 'Everybody was sober and down in the mouth all day. I don't mean the kind of sober that comes of leaving liquor alone not that.
Although we were in good health in Shooa, many of the men were ill, suffering generally from headache; also from ulcerated legs; the latter was a peculiar disease, as the ulcer generally commenced upon the ankle bone and extended to such a degree that the patient was rendered incapable of walking.
But he held his pace, his pipe griped in his teeth, his gun swinging at his side. Presently, as he turned into a grass-grown carrefour, a mere waste of wild-flowers and tangled briers, he caught his ankle in a strand of ivy and fell headlong. Sprawling there on the moss and dead leaves, the sound of human voices struck his ear, and he sat up, scowling and rubbing his knees.
I challenge you to do it." Scaife shrugged his shoulders. "It's so obvious," he said coolly, "that your kind friend ran no risks other than a sprained ankle or a cold." "What do you mean?" "He was certain that you would come forward. He forced your hand. There was never the smallest chance of his being sacked, and he knew it." "Yes," said John, calmly, "I knew it." "Just so," said Scaife.
"If I put it off any longer it will be too late. I'm growing so fast, Aunt Olivia says I'll have to wear ankle skirts next summer. If I begin to look grown-up he'll get frightened of me, and then I'll never find out the Golden Milestone mystery." "Do you think he'll ever tell you who Alice is?" I asked. "I have a notion who Alice is already," said the mysterious creature.
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