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Of this spirit Aucassin and Nicolette contains perhaps the most famous expression: it is the answer Aucassin gives when he is threatened with the pains of hell, if he makes Nicolette his mistress. A creature wholly of affection and the senses, he sees on the way to paradise only a feeble company of aged priests, "clinging day and night to the chapel altars," barefoot or in patched sandals.
It was long remembered in Lochaber that Lochiel took off what probably was the only pair of shoes in his clan, and charged barefoot at the head of his men. The whole line advanced firing. The enemy returned the fire and did much execution.
It was hot at noon in the bedroom under the roof, and by the time Ruth Mary had fortified herself to meet the eyes of strangers she was uncomfortably flushed, and short of breath besides from the pressure of the new stays. She went slowly down the uneven stairs, wishing that she could walk as softly in her shoes as she could barefoot. Her father was talking to the strangers in the shed-room.
Marjie and O'mie and Mary Gentry, Cam and Dollie's only child, were my first Kansas playmates. Together we waded barefoot in the shallow ripples of the Neosho, and little by little we began to explore that wide, sweet prairie land to the west.
"I have a brother who's still single but he's in America," replied Barefoot, laughing. "Let him stay there," said the Butter Countess; "it would be better if we could send all the men folk away and be here by ourselves."
She promised to pay the loan that very day and to deduct it gradually from Barefoot's wages. Now at last Barefoot was allowed to look at herself. The mistress herself held the glass before her, and both of their faces glowed and gleamed with mutual joy. "I don't know myself! I don't know myself!" Barefoot kept repeating, feeling her face with both hands.
He arrived in safety at Kingston, and from there, travelled barefoot over the mountains, until very much exhausted, he reached Montego Bay, where he had friends, and where one of his brothers possessed some property. From this place, he afterwards wrote to me.
In rags, almost barefoot, half-fed, often without fuel even to cook their food, in that terrible winter on the heights, whole regiments of heroes became extinct, because there was not sufficient administrative ability to convey the supplies to a perishing army! So wretched was the hospital service, that to be sent there meant death. Gangrene carried off four out of five.
In all this great pity and sympathy for American citizens made to travel hundreds of miles barefoot and in chains, the question 'How came they there? seems never to be asked. And yet, so far as the interposition of this nation for their recovery is concerned, that is the very first question to be asked.
The women were cooking oatmeal on iron girdles, but the fire burned smokily, and the cake I got was no better than dough. They were a disjaskit lot, with tousled hair and pinched faces, in which shone hungry eyes. Most were barefoot, and all but two three were ancient beldames who should have been at home in the chimney corner.
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