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But DID you see his shoes? I suppose they make the miles go quickly, or seem to measure less by comparison." "They're probably more serviceable than those high-heeled things that Captain Greyson hops about in." "But the Captain always rides and rides very well you know," said Louise, reflectively. There was a moment's pause. "I suppose Jim will tell us all about him," said Mrs.

O'Shaughnessy now stretches himself of a summer afternoon, with a short clay pipe stuck between his lips, and his hat crushed down on his brows, revolving the sad vicissitude of things that same doorstep has been pressed by the feet of generals and marquises and grave dignitaries upon whom depended the destiny of the States officers in gold lace and scarlet cloth, and high-heeled belles in patch, powder, and paduasoy.

Though the daughter isn't uppish a bit, so Nanny and Dell says, and visits right over the fence and just loves the children. But she don't know anything seemingly the daughter don't. Wears fancy caps and high-heeled shoes to work in mornings and was caught planting onion sets root up and doing dishes without an apron and drying them without scalding them first.

The damsels were charming in the big caps, flowered gowns, and high-heeled shoes of their great-grandmothers, as they sat about a spider-legged table talking over the tax, and pledging themselves to drink no more tea till it was taken off.

She was modern to the soles of her dainty little high-heeled shoes, frankly fond of dress and of pleasure, devoted to tennis and to comic opera, delighted with a dance, which came her way only too seldom, longing ever for some new excitement, and yet behind all this lighter side of her character a thoroughly good, healthy-minded English girl, the life and soul of the house, and the idol of her sister and her father.

The belt is the chief curiosity, being made of broad black leather, studded with massive brass heads, with a fringe of brass chains. High-heeled shoes and red stockings complete the attire, and altogether make a fanciful picture of a pretty maiden bandit." EMMA. "But such garments must surely be very cold?"

The wind blew her dress up to her ankles as she reached the sidewalk, displaying a pair of pointed-toed, high-heeled boots that perforce made walking even round the block a torturing task. But Mrs.

One woman who is wearing a hat with enormous feathers and very high-heeled shoes, has two huge trunks. She tries to slip a five-franc piece into the hand of one of the custom-house officers.

Close fitting, high-heeled boots of fine quality incased his feet, in whose shapeliness he felt a pardonable pride; for a young man’s excellence was often measured in the circle which he had frequented, by the possession of such a foot.

They turned off up the creek high-heeled boots soled with rawhide and bound about with thongs and Wiley rushed recklessly at the camp. He was weak, he was starving, and he had thrown away his food and this man had hidden what he had.