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When he went to see him, he saw the doctor glance at his club-foot; and on hearing that Philip was only in his fourth year at the hospital he said at once that his experience was insufficient: Philip understood that this was only an excuse; the man would not have an assistant who might not be as active as he wanted. Philip turned his attention to other means of earning money.
Returning to his former position he drew with the forefinger of his left hand, on the ground, the outline of a club-foot; a hand with the fingers clenched and a long pointed thumb standing upright; and a bat. At his request Kelson and Curtis carefully imitated the devices, each in the space allotted to him.
He served well and as he ran clumsily played close to the net: notwithstanding his club-foot he was quick, and it was difficult to get a ball past him. He was pleased because he won all his sets. At tea he lay down at Miss Wilkinson's feet, hot and panting. "Flannels suit you," she said. "You look very nice this afternoon." He blushed with delight. "I can honestly return the compliment.
Mr Abel, who had a quaint old-fashioned air about him, looked nearly of the same age as his father, and bore a wonderful resemblance to him in face and figure, though wanting something of his full, round, cheerfulness, and substituting in its place a timid reserve. In all other respects, in the neatness of the dress, and even in the club-foot, he and the old gentleman were precisely alike.
Instead of her pretty little Agnes, so rosy and so fresh, who was a gift of the good God, a sort of hideous little monster, lame, one-eyed, deformed, was crawling and squalling over the floor. She hid her eyes in horror. 'Oh! said she, 'have the witches transformed my daughter into this horrible animal? They hastened to carry away the little club-foot; he would have driven her mad.
But with this equinus, wide in foot like a horse's hoof, with rugose skin, dry tendons, and large toes, on which the black nails looked as if made of iron, the club-foot ran about like a deer from morn till night. He was constantly to be seen on the Place, jumping around the carts, thrusting his limping foot forward. He seemed even stronger on that leg than the other.
An' when my time comes to shoot I'm goin' to put them both out." "By Heaven! Wade, you'll have to kill me if you ever expect that club-foot Moore to get Collie!" "He'll get her," replied Wade, triumphantly. "Collie's with him now. I sent her. I told her to tell Wils how you tried to force her " Belllounds began to shake all over. A torture of jealous hate and deadly terror convulsed him.
"What is the name of the man you secretly believe to have shot your husband from the trellis?" Mrs. Hammond told her. It was a new one to Violet. She said so and then asked: "What else can you tell me about him?" "Nothing, but that he is a very dark man and has a club-foot." "Oh, what a mistake you've made." "Mistake? Yes, I acknowledge that."
He was not a beautiful pup, this Peter Pied-Bot or Peter Club-foot, as Jolly Roger McKay who lived over in the big cedar swamp had named him when he gave Peter to the girl. He was, in a way, an accident and a homely one at that.
Saleeby had gone up to Byron and said, "My lord, I perceive you have a club-foot and inordinate passions: such are the hereditary results of a profligate soldier marrying a hot-tempered woman." Such are the hereditary delusions bred by a Syrian doctor marrying a Quaker lady from York." Suppose Dr.
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