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Tacks was slightly in the lead when my shoe reached the door, so he won. At breakfast we were joined by Uncle Peter and Aunt Martha, both of whom fairly oozed enthusiasm and Clara J.'s pulse began to climb with excitement and anticipation. I was on the bargain counter, marked down from 30 cents.
'Speak out, sirrah, said the laird, assuming a look of his father's, a very particular ane, which he had when he was angry it seemed as if the wrinkles of his frown made that selfsame fearful shape of a horse's shoe in the middle of his brow; 'Speak out, sir! I WILL know your thoughts; do you suppose that I have this money? 'Far be it frae me to say so, said Stephen.
A young girl had evidently been trying to climb down, when she had lost her footing, and had only been saved from a bad fall because her grey woollen frock had caught her upon a projecting point of granite, giving her time to snatch at the strong twigs of some alp-roses, and to find a very slight projection on which she could rest the toe of one shoe.
"Yes?" said Irene in a cool, questioning tone, lifting her shallowly-set, insolent eyes to Rilla's crimson face for a moment and then dropping them again as if she could not tear them from their fascinated gaze at the shabby boot and the gallant shoe. Rilla gathered herself together. She would not lisp she would be calm and composed. "Mrs.
The admitting of the priest could be put off no longer. For even as he called, Father Pat had put his shoulder to the door, so that an old panel was bending inward; next, he fell to kicking at the bottom rail with a stout shoe. Barber gave a quick glance round the kitchen, then went to pull aside the bolt.
"Captain Trevelyan is not the man to desert one of his people, even a little chap like me, and maybe he will remember what he said to my mother. If I keep my clothes on me, I shall not be able to float as long as without them." Thinking thus, for he did not utter the words aloud, he managed to kick off one shoe, then the other. He felt lighter without them. The trousers were next to be got rid of.
The constable took him by the arm, and led him out. As they walked along the street, Rodney looked around him to see if there was no way of escape. If he could only get a chance to run! As they came to the corner of a little alley, he asked the constable to let him tie his shoe, the string of which was loose.
She would have nothing to do with recreant soldiers; and she turned away with a face of cold displeasure. "How's your foot?" asked Señora Carreno, abruptly. "That last dressing fetch it, do you think?" "All right!" said the young man. "Look! I have my shoe on." And he held up one foot with an air of triumph.
Your burned letters still shed their fragrance!" Marianne touched the half-consumed logs with the tip of her foot and the débris of the paper fluttered around her shoe like little black butterflies. "I wish I could have destroyed the past as I have made those letters flame! It weighs on me, it chokes me!
She cast approving glances at the graceful folds of crimson cashmere which swept over her knees; she extended one little foot in its pointed shoe; she raised her arms with a gesture peculiar to her and placed them behind her head in such a fashion that she seemed to embrace herself.
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