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"The ordinary brown leather, with strappings and C.G. on one side. Just like a thousand other boxes, but it had a label, beside the initials. I don't see how anyone can have taken it by mistake." She set her teeth, and her head took a defiant tilt. "There's one comfort; if it is stolen, whoever has taken it will not get much for her pains! There's nothing in it but skirts.
Once Doe and I went on a visit to Kensingtowe, partly out of loyalty to the old school, and partly to display ourselves in our new greatness. We wore our field-service caps at the jaunty angle of all right-minded subalterns. Though only unmounted officers, we were dressed in yellow riding-breeches with white leather strappings.
With his arm in splints and a sling, and the side of his face covered with strappings and plaster, he still went about his business. "Ah!
None of the servants could fathom their master’s doings of late. He gave strappings when they asked questions, and Bias was away. The streets of Trœzene were utterly deserted when Democrates threaded them. There was no moon, neither he nor his companion were overcertain of the way.
"Is making money fortunate? Of course, I like nice things; but a whole lot of us children feel like" Dorothea's arms waved as if to free herself from unseen strappings "feel like Chinese children. Our feet aren't really bound, sure enough, but we can't do like we like. Sometimes I just want to run as fast as a racehorse, and holler as loud as the poor children do in the park.
So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. It must have been our bad day, for Georgia felt her very first bite from the strap that afternoon, and on the way home volunteered not to tell on me, if grandma did not ask. Yet grandma did, the first thing.
And when Georgia reluctantly said, "Yes," grandma looked at me and shook her head despairingly; but when I announced that I had already had two strappings, and Georgia one, she burst out laughing, and said she thought I had had enough for one day. A few weeks later, the large boys drove the master out of school on account of his cruelty to a little fellow who had played truant.
Equipped in skates wonderful to behold, with their superb strappings and dazzling runners curving over the instep and topped with gilt balls, he would open his fat eyes a little if one of the maidens chanced to drop him a curtsy but would not dare to bow in return for fear of losing his balance. Not only pleasure seekers and stately men of note were upon the canal.
He stood staring dumbly at the light and warmth and at Ma Snow, then he stooped and began fumbling clumsily at the strappings of his snow-shoes. "Won't you-all come in?" Ma Snow, recovering a little from her surprise, asked hospitably. He pitched forward and would again have gone down but that he threw out his hand and caught the door-jamb. "Bruce Burt! Hell's catoots! Bruce Burt!"
Was this something the reason why he had not yet kissed her? "It's got to do with the Dutchy wot landed me this slip over the cokernut" he indicated some plaster strappings that decorated the seat of intelligence "with a revolver-butt, when they rushed the Fort. After 'e'd plugged at me wiv' 'is last cartridge an' missed."
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