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A bright blue neckcloth, well starched, and of great depth and volume; a buff waistcoat, with massive gilt buttons; a grass-green riding-coat of peculiar shape and somewhat scanty material; white cord trousers, York tan gaiters, and enormous double-soled shooting-shoes, pierced and strapped, and clamped and hobnailed, completing a tout ensemble that almost upset my aunt's gravity, and made me, nervous as I felt, stuff my pocket-handkerchief into my mouth that I might not laugh outright.
Mr Sparkler, stimulated by Love to brilliancy, replied that for a particular walk a man ought to have a particular pair of shoes; as, for example, shooting, shooting-shoes; cricket, cricket-shoes. Whereas, he believed that Henry Gowan had no particular pair of shoes. 'No speciality? said Mr Dorrit.
Look here; look at these boots," and I held up the shooting-shoes new from Burlington Arcade. "They cost thirty shillings thirty shillings! and I will give them to you for the loan of this pair of slippers." "They'd be no use at all to me, yer honer; not the laist use in life." "You could do with them very well for to-night, and then you could sell them.
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