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When Rawley spoke, it was with quiet deliberation, and even gentleness. "I haven't been a saint, and she knows it, as you say, Dan; but the law is on my side as yet, and it isn't on yours. There's the difference." "You used to gamble yourself; you were pretty tough, and you oughtn't to walk up my back with hobnailed boots." "Yes, I gambled, Dan, and I drank, and I raised a dust out here.
I did not deceive myself as to its value in the cosmic scheme, but it was one of the pleasant things to which I was born, just as I was born to good food and wines and unpatched boots and the morning hot water brought into my bedroom. I liked it. I suspect that it has fled into eternity with the spirit of Captain Vauvenarde.
Insist that she puts away your boots, and does not leave your clothes lying on the floor. There was a scorpion in the bathroom to-day," he said lazily, stretching out his long legs. She flushed hotly, as she always did when he made any casual reference to the intimacy of their life.
From the crown of his wide black hat to the tall heels of his dainty boots he was such a dandy as demanded more than a casual glance. "Amigos," he cried, the door closed now, his back to it, his wide hat describing a slow, graceful arc as he raised it gallantly from his black hair, "I have the thirst of a lost soul. Who will drink with me?"
"Don't you see we are dying of curiosity?" "And I am dying of fatigue," Vincent said; "which is a much more painful sort of death, and I can think of nothing else until I have got these boots off. Annie, do run and tell them to bring me a pair of slippers and a cup of tea, and I shall want the buggy at the door in half an hour."
Now let us see what he did afterwards it may give us a clue to the whole matter." Fifty yards further they came on the spot where Julian had turned off on the poacher's track. "There it is, Mr. Henderson!" Frank exclaimed triumphantly. "Another man came out of the wood here a man with roughly-made boots with hob-nails. That man came out first; that is quite evident.
'And hoops under your gown like that? said Vernie, pointing; 'and those funny little boots? What a guy you must have looked!
He left his torch and boots behind, and, climbing up, went along the passage, half expecting to encounter the woman, and ready to seize her and question her. But he found no one. All was still. He reached the chimney of the other room, and then, as before, he looked down.
I looked for my father and my uncle Mansie and the other men, but could see none of them anywhere. Probably my own lightness, and the fact that I was not, like them, encumbered with heavy sea boots, had aided me in coming up to the surface before them.
"Weel, then, ye maun ken we're starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.
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