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The regiments were already in column, the leading one, the 4th, formed and disappearing in the dust of the turnpike. "Air ye going now and have every damned officer swearing at you? What do they care if your foot's cut and your back aches? and you couldn't come no sooner. I ain't a-going." Steve's eyes filled with tears. He felt sublimely virtuous; a martyr from the first.
Foot's Cray is a good long step beyond and does not yield much profit, but I select the most novel specimen, which is a combination of ordinary emblems, with little attempt at symmetry, or even arrangement, other than the awkward juxtaposition of the cherubins' inner wings. "To Elizabeth Wood, died February 8, 1735-6, aged 58 years."
At first the speed at which their horses moved prevented all conversation, but when the hills grew so steep that they were obliged to go at a foot's pace, they began to exchange a few words about the friends from whom they had just parted. Colomba spoke with admiration of Miss Nevil's beauty, of her golden hair, and charming ways.
Suffice it to say that, though the thermometer was below zero, they never moved out of a foot's pace; the very hounds growing tired of the trail, and slinking off one by one as the opportunity occurred.
Then the little donkey raised himself on his four legs and began to walk round the theater, keeping at a foot's pace. After a little the director cried: "Trot!" and Pinocchio, obeying the order, changed to a trot. "Gallop!" and Pinocchio broke into a gallop. "Full gallop!" and Pinocchio went full gallop.
Soon after, the district we traversed became more igneous, wrinkled, cracked, and ropy than anything we had yet seen, and another two hours' scamper over such a track as till then I would not have believed horses could have traversed, even at a foot's pace, brought us to the solitary farm-house of Bessestad.
By and by it began to rain; every one rode off as usual, and this time the Khoja among them. The Bey, however, could not induce his horse to stir out of a foot's pace, and when he arrived at his palace he was drenched to the skin. "Wretched man!" he cried to the Khoja, "is it not through you that I was induced to ride this useless horse?"
Well, then, keep it to yourself till it is axed for. You Pony, your foot's done and ready. You get yourself off to the mill, or you'll be docked for lost time." The little fellow limped sniffling out; Johnnie reached down for Deanie, who had crept after her to hear how her cause went.
"Yes, very: but what makes you limp so, my child?" "Mine foot's come hurted again!" Bruno mournfully replied. And he sat down on the ground, and began nursing it. The Professor held his head between his hands an attitude that I knew indicated distraction of mind. "Better rest a minute," he said. "It may be better then or it may be worse. If only I had some of my medicines here!
The dominion of German thought can only be extended under the aegis of political power, and unless we act in conformity to this idea, we shall be untrue to our great duties towards the human race. Our first and positive duty consists, therefore, in zealously guarding the territories of Germany, as they now are, and in not surrendering a foot's breadth of German soil to foreign nationalities.
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