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"Nay," quoth Robin, the tears of merriment wet on his cheeks, "on second thoughts I go no farther than here, for I have good friends hereabouts. Thou mayst go forward if thou dost list, thou sweet pretty fellow, but thou must go forward barefoot, for I am afraid that thy shoon must be left behind. Off with them, friend, for I tell thee I have taken a great fancy to them."
He proposed to go barefoot to the palace, to throw himself at the feet of the King, and to conjure him by their former friendship to consent to a reconciliation. But he afterward adopted another resolution, to decline the authority of the court, and trust for protection to the sacredness of his character. In the morning, October 18th, having previously celebrated the mass of St.
"You might have spoken any time," said Maud. "Why, I would have walked barefoot to Dorchester and back to please you! It does seem horrible to think of our being apart all that time, out of such beautiful consideration and you were my own, my very own all the time, every moment." "I will come and tell your father to-morrow," said Howard presently. "How will Master Jack take it?
So he opened his lips and let out a deep guffaw of mockery. "We shall have you turning monk," said he, "a candidate for canonization going barefoot, with flagellated back and shaven head. No more wine, no more dice, no more wenches, no more " "Peace!" snapped the other. "Say 'Pax," suggested Garnache, "'Pax tecum, or `vobiscum. It is thus you will be saying it later."
The notes of birds, the chatter of brooks, the tinkle of cow-bells came again, with the dreams of a barefoot boy. Something of calm and a newer hope and fresher resolution was vouchsafed to them all when the wholesome young preacher held a homely service, in response to their earnest request.
Nay, I would sell everything I possessed and go barefoot rather! I would be a sister, not a mere 'patroness' to the poor; I would never wear a single garment that had not been made for me by the workers of my own land; and the 'good of the country' should be 'good' indeed, not 'bad, as it is now!"
"I think 'bout Tommy first," said Lovey Mary. "Yes, you certainly do yer part by him. If my childern wore stockin's an' got as many holes in 'em as he does, I'd work buttonholes in 'em at the start fer the toes to come through. But even Tommy wants somethin' besides darns. Why don't you let him go barefoot on Sundays, too, an' take the time you been mendin' fer him to play with him?
The existence of these two animals in Tasmania and not in Australia shows that that island has been a very long time separated from the mainland. Australia is very well provided with serpents rather too well provided and the Bush child has to be careful in regard to putting his hand into rabbit burrows or walking barefoot, as there are several varieties of venomous snake.
Not till the school bell rang for dismissal did he drag himself back with a sigh to the workaday world that called. He had a lawn to mow and a back yard to clean up for Mr. Rawson. With his cap stuck on the back of his head and his hands in the pockets of his patched trousers, the boy went whistling townward on his barefoot way. At Adams Street he met the schoolchildren bound for home.
The winged white cap entirely hid her hair; a gray cloak with a hood could either fold round her and her child or be strapped on her shoulders. Her sabots were hung on her shoulder, for she had learnt to go barefoot, and walked much more lightly thus; and her little bundle was slung on a staff on the back of Maitre Gardon, who in his great peasant's hat and coat looked so like a picture of St.
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