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There was a momentous promise in his gravity, a hint of catastrophe in the tilt of his head. Like two receding waves the tight ranks opened before him, clearing a path for his heavy-footed advance to the post-office doors a lane of bulging eyes and clicking tongues such as Old Jerry in all his days had never provoked.
On the morrow I got another horse, but the brute, heavy-footed from the plough, was so slow that, save for the look of the thing, I might just as well have been afoot. Nevertheless I pushed towards the town of Thorn, hearing and seeing naught of my dear Playmate, though, as you may well imagine, I asked at every wayside place.
At the north end, however, winter reigned; and there were tiny ridges of fine snow on the floor, sifted in by the wind through the cracks in the window-frames. But the bouncing girls and the heavy-footed guides and lumbermen who filled the ball-room did not appear to mind the heat or the cold. They balanced and "sashayed" from the tropics to the arctic circle.
For the Värmland polska is the most wonderful dance. It transforms the heavy-footed sons of earth. Without a sound soles an inch thick float over the unplaned barn floor. They whirl about, light as leaves in an autumn wind. It is supple, quick, silent, gliding. Its noble, measured movements set the body free and let it feel itself light, elastic, floating.
One saw, in particular, many enlisted men, peaceful citizens, men who lived quietly on their income, bending beneath the weight of their rifles; and little active volunteers, easily frightened but full of enthusiasm, as eager to attack as they were ready to take to flight; and amid these, a sprinkling of red-breeched soldiers, the pitiful remnant of a division cut down in a great battle; somber artillerymen, side by side with nondescript foot-soldiers; and, here and there, the gleaming helmet of a heavy-footed dragoon who had difficulty in keeping up with the quicker pace of the soldiers of the line.
And his tongue was specious and honeyed, and he had the trick of making black seem white and gray a golden splendor. Why run away and leave her to face it alone? . . . He was there a long time. It grew dark. The street, deserted by its daylight toilers, grew quiet except for the tramping of an occasional heavy-footed watchman or policeman. David did not stir.
He released the girl and lunged toward the old squaw, who was reaching for the pot with its scalding contents. Seizing her by the arm, he threw her heavily to the ground, where she lay while the girl fled to the edge of the clearing and paused, for she knew that in the forest she could easily elude the heavy-footed lumber boss.
The King says to this Peasant, "Thou shalt ride with me to-day!" And Scholzke, Ploschke others call him, heavy-footed rational biped knowing the ground there practically, every yard of it, did, as appears, attend the King all morning; and do service, that was recognizable long years afterwards. At break of day the ranking and arranging began.
In the middle of the day he started up in a panic and went about the city asking for work in offices, shops, warehouses, everywhere, but he could not get any. He trailed back heavy-footed again to the park and sat down. "He told his wife more lies about his work that night and what his master had said when he asked for an advance. He couldn't bear the children to touch him.
Friend, those heavy-footed, foolish English are coming to speak with the Mugger." "Warn him, then. He was called Protector of the Poor by some one not unlike a starving Jackal but a little time ago." "Let my cousin protect his own hide. He has told me again and again there is nothing to fear from the white-faces. They must be white-faces.
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