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"It's about time I heard from those triolets," Walt said, after a silence of five minutes, during which they had swung steadily down the trail. "There'll be a check at the post-office, I know, and we'll transmute it into beautiful buckwheat flour, a gallon of maple syrup, and a new pair of overshoes for you." "And into beautiful milk from Mrs. Johnson's beautiful cow," Madge added.
He heard the murmur of voices in the drawing-room, and the sympathetic tones of the women who were pitying the men. Van Bibber pulled on his overshoes and a great-coat that covered him from his ears to his ankles, and dashed out into the snow. The dog had just enough spirit left to try and dodge him, and with a leap to one side went off again across the lawn.
Cash Markham's past could not have been a blank; more likely it held too much of sorrow for the salve of speech to lighten its hurt. There might have been a child.... "Aw, come back here!" Bud commanded Lovin Child gruffly. But Lovin Child was too busy. He had discovered in his circling of Cash, the fanny buckles on Cash's high overshoes.
I neglected to put on my overshoes. Here we are, doctor." Kronborg opened his front door seemed delighted to be at home again. The front hall was dark and cold; the hatrack was hung with an astonishing number of children's hats and caps and cloaks. They were even piled on the table beneath the hatrack. Under the table was a heap of rubbers and overshoes.
It had come to be very near the end of the Knickerbocker days in this quiet city where brimstone matches and india-rubber overshoes had just been introduced, indeed, it was close upon the year 1840, when the Astor House was a new structure talked about all over the land as a wonderful palace.
First making sure the library and hall were free of servants, Fred tiptoed to the coat-room and, opening the door, switched: on the electric light. The naked man, leaving in his wake a trail of damp footprints, followed at his heels. Fred pointed at golf-capes, sweaters, greatcoats hanging from hooks, and on the floor at boots and overshoes.
Again later in speaking to her husband, who seemed a trifle vague as to whether he had seen Nuremberg or not, she said: "Why, you remember it very well; it was there you bought those nice overshoes!" All of which left me with some doubts in my mind as to the cultivating influences of foreign travel on their minds.
"To think that I've forgotten my overshoes, which I never fail to take with me to the country!" "The country, father?" said Jeanne, "why, Bourges is a city! "To be sure to be sure," answered M. Charnot, who feared he had hurt my feelings. He put on his spectacles and began to study the old houses around him. "Yes, a city; really quite a city." I do not remember what commonplace I stammered.
It is now -45°, with a ten-mile breeze from the south. Frostbiting weather! Went for a short run on foot this forenoon and a longer one on ski this afternoon. The surface is bad after the recent snowfall. A new pair of sealskin overshoes for ski made by Evans seem to be a complete success. He has modified the shape of the toe to fit the ski irons better. I am very pleased with this arrangement.
In her great surge of emotion, she noticed these posturing hussies far less than she did a little volume of Rosetti, or the overshoes whose worn toes suddenly revealed to her that Walter Babson, the editor, was not rich was not, perhaps, so very much better paid than herself. She did not find the notes. She had to go to the managing editor, trembling, all her good little heart wild with pain.
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