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They were descending some staircase at the back of his bed he could hear the regular tap of a light slipper from step to step and the rustle of a skirt seemingly in his very ear. They were becoming less and less distinct they were gone! He sprang to his feet, but almost at the same instant he was conscious of a sudden chill that seemed to him as physical as it was mental.
Certainly, bullion is rarely kept in a branch storeroom, but the detective was well aware that the keys of the case containing the slipper were kept in this particular safe! He was convinced, and could entertain no shadowy doubt, that at last Dexter had triumphed. He wondered if it had ever hitherto fallen to the lot of a representative of the law thus to be made an accessory to a daring felony!
There was not a movement of the dreamy dance she was teaching him, not a touch of the little satin slipper, that did not have its nicely calculated intention to draw him on. The sooner she could make him yield and crush her to him, the sooner he declared his passion for her, that much nearer would her ambitions be to their fulfilment.
A high-caste man will not be caught doing any work which is "beneath him." The cook will not sweep; the messenger boy would not pick up a book from the floor. The liveried Brahmin who takes your card at the American Consulate in Calcutta once lost his place rather than pick up a slipper; rather than humiliate himself in such fashion he would walk half a mile to get some other servant for the duty.
The river was covered with boats and barges, festooned, canopied, and hung with banners and devices; and from sunrise music and singing conducted down the stream the gaily dressed populace for those were the days when a man spent on his ruff and his hose and his russet coat as much as would feed and house a family for a year; when the fine-figured ruflier with sables about his neck, corked slipper, trimmed buskin, and cloak of silk or damask furred, carried his all upon his back.
He was confident enough of his abilities along other lines, but he had a low opinion of his mental equipment. "I guess the only kind of sense I got is common," he said. But Miss Enid would not have it so. "No," she said, earnestly regarding the toe of her beaded slipper; "your mind is much above the average. But it isn't enough to be born with brains one must know how to use them."
He continued to scrape, and the Cap'n stared mutely down at the foot that was encased in a muddy slipper. "Now, there's a hoss standin' there " pursued Todd. "What will you take for that team jest as it stands?" blurted the mariner, desperately. The fire, the smoke of which was rolling up above the distant tree-tops, and his duty there made him reckless.
A faint illumination came from the hall, so that we could just see each other. He lifted me off the chair. 'No! I protested, laughing. 'And my slipper.... The servants! 'Stuff! I was a trifle in those arms. The triumphal re-entry into the world has just begun, and exactly as Diaz foretold. And the life of the forest is over.
Another pause and then Aggie continued very firmly, "Tell the Superintendent that we JUST MUST have one." Zoie stopped in the act of putting on her second slipper and called a reminder to Aggie. "Tell him to get a HE one," she said, "Alfred wants a boy." "Take what you can get!" answered Aggie impatiently, and again she gave her attention to the 'phone.
Several of the vessels made of coarse clay mixed with sand, the grains of which make the surface very rough, are of slipper or moccasin shape. These are covered with soot or blackened by fire, indicating their former use as cooking pots.
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