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She wore a broad old-fashioned hat tied under her round chin, and a gay flowered muslin dress that floated about her with an easy swaying motion. She wore, too, a pair of soft low-heeled slippers, that gave forth a soothing accompaniment to the rhythm of her movements. She was surrounded by a perfect bodyguard of children.
When Pearl came out of the doctor's office into the sunshine of the village street, she had but one thought one overwhelming desire, expressed in the way she held her head, and the firm beat of her low-heeled shoes on the sidewalk she must get away where she would not see him or the people she knew.
Slope, or how invoke the tragic muse to describe the rage which swelled the celestial bosom of the bishop's chaplain? Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction. The painter put a veil over Agamemnon's face when called on to depict the father's grief at the early doom of his devoted daughter.
I strained my eyes, and all at once I remembered the thin-soled, low-heeled, splay yellow boots of the insidious foreigner, with the soft eyes and the brown-paper face, whom I had turned from the door as a palpable fraud. The ring at the bell was the first I had heard of him, there had been no warning step upon the stairs, and my suspicious eye had searched his feet for rubber soles.
In the sand behind a mesquite, fifty yards from the spot where the body had been found, he discovered significant marks. "Come ovah heah, yo' men," he sang out. Distinct in the sand were the prints made by a pair of low-heeled, square-toed boots. "Well," Anton grunted. "Know those mahks?" All shook their heads. They had certainly been made by an unusual pair of boots.
"Thank you so much," she said coldly and returned to the station. In the small lavatory of the depot waiting room she exchanged her slippers for a pair of moderately low-heeled shoes which she had at the last minute of packing tucked into her suitcase, put a few extra articles into her rather smart traveling bag, left the suitcase in the telegraph office and started.
"You must have some low-heeled white shoes and short white skirts and a batting hat. They won't come to much," she added as if carelessly, going down to her bridge game on the veranda. But Maria Angelina's small hands clenched tightly at her sides in a panic out of all proportion to the idea. More expense, she was thinking quiveringly. More investment! Oh, she must not fail she dared not fail.
Dave Drennen was a big man, no man here so big save Kootanie George alone, who was two inches the taller and fully thirty pounds the heavier. The Canadian stood four inches better than six feet in his squat, low-heeled boots and must turn sideways to get his massive shoulders through most doors hereabouts.
"I believe I could say, Miss," asserted d'Estaing, "that nevertheless you yourself have brought to Fontainebleau at least twelve short dresses and five pairs of low-heeled shoes." "More than that a straw hat and aprons," Cyrène added mischievously, casting a smile also at Germain. "Hold! hold!" de Blair cried. "This is certainly the revolution they say is to come.
She was painfully conscious that the severe simplicity of her dress tended rather to add to her height, notwithstanding her low-heeled ward shoes with their noiseless rubber soles. She could but hope Deryck would prove right as to the view Dr. Mackenzie would take.
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