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A single groom, aged and without livery, took charge at once of Don Antonio's mule, his servant's horse, and the servant himself. The seneschal, hobbling before him, conducted our Spaniard across the great hall, gloomy and half denuded, through the main living-room of the chateau into a smaller, more intimate apartment, holding some trace of luxury, which he announced as madame's own room.
He left the store quickly and made his way to where Ezekiel was waiting for him with the carryall. "Now, 'Zeke, we'll go to the Hospital and see poor Hiram." They found him hobbling about on crutches in the grounds of the Hospital. "How long have you been here, Hiram?" was Quincy's first question. "About twelve weeks. You see, besides breaking my leg I cracked my knee pan an' that's made it wuss."
Thus at length they started down the mountain along the trail, which Jimmy pointed out, hobbling along in advance. In a couple of hours they were at the top of the high rock face above the mouth of the creek. Here Jimmy paused and anxiously scanned the entire expanse of the adjacent cove and the long line of the beach beyond.
The old man himself rarely left home, and might be seen at all hours hobbling around his garden and corrals, keenly interested in his own belongings, halter-breaking his colts, anxiously watching the growth of his lettuce, counting the oranges, and beguiling the fruitful hours with delightful calculation. "It's all profit," he has often said to me.
Surtaine, glossy, grave, a figure to fill the eye roundly, sat at his glass-topped table facing his audience. Above him hung Old Lame-Boy, eternally hobbling amidst his fervid implications. Waving the newcomers to seats directly in front of him, the presiding genius lifted a benign hand for silence. "My friends," he said, in his unctuous, rolling voice, "I have an important announcement to make.
I am quite sure old Aunt Hannah is cooking behind that door " here he pointed to the kitchen "and that poor old Tom will come hobbling along in a minute with 'dat mis'ry' in his back. How in the world you ever did it, and what " "And did you hear my frogs?" interrupted his hostess. "Of course he didn't, Felicia," broke in Peter. "What a question to ask a man!
"I'm afraid you'll have to go to the station for a few minutes." "But, confound it, officer I have nothing to do with this row." "That may be true, sir. You can explain all that at the desk. We have to get at the bottom of this. This is no place to argue." A moment later the hansom, with a bent axle, was hobbling its way down the street engineered by bluecoats.
Moreover we were both of us Republicans, so the matter was of no great moment. Courteously saluting ourselves we parted, he remaining to sell wine and I hobbling to Rome, now a little painfully and my sack the heavier by a quart of wine, which, as you probably know, weighs almost exactly two pounds and a half.
A gouty old dignitary, in a white surplice, came hobbling along from one extremity of the court; and by and by, from the opposite corner, appeared Dr. Pusey, also in a white surplice, and with a lady by his side. We met him, and I stared pretty fixedly at him, as I well might; for he looked on the ground, as if conscious that he would be stared at.
Graham hesitated, stopped. Suddenly the folly of telling his secret flashed into his mind. "I didn't mean to offend you disbelieving you," said the old man coming near. "It's no manner of harm. Call yourself the Sleeper if it pleases you. 'Tis a foolish trick." Graham hesitated, turned abruptly and went on his way. For a time he heard the old man's hobbling pursuit and his wheezy cries receding.
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