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The sad news only arrived lately from Australia, whither Weir had gone some years ago, of his demise. Deceased played in two Internationals, including that of 1872, and no finer dribbler ever toed a ball. He was, in fact, at the time designated the "Prince of Dribblers." ~Joseph Leckie.~
Long-limbed, thick-waisted, spare and strong, she wore a straight, grey dress the dress of a little convent girl coming into the parloir on a day of visits which emphasized the boyish aspect of her figure. Narrow frills of white were at wrist and neck; her shoes were low heeled and square toed; and around her neck a gold locket hung on a black velvet ribbon. Mrs.
She was noticing something else besides the little old-lady back. Evangeline's braids toed in! Tight and flaxen, they stood out in rounded curves, converging suddenly to the bit of faded ribbon that tied them together. There was something suspicious looking about that ribbon "Stefana starched it!" smiled Miss Theodosia's thought. The small figure whirled face about.
It was a woe-begone look the gallant Captain cast on the demure and determined maiden, then, feeling his daughter's eye upon him, he turned toward her. "I'm going, father," she said, with a firmness quite equal to his own, and he on his part recognized when his daughter had toed the danger line. He indulged in a laugh that had little of mirth in it.
"He's got five pair o' new mittins, an' my little blue chist full o' stockin's. I knit 'em two-an'-two, an' two-an'-one, an' toed some on 'em off with white, an' some with red, so's to keep 'em in pairs. But Mary said I better not knit any more, for fear the moths'd git into 'em, an' so I stopped an' took up this garter. But 'tis dretful fiddlin' work!"
This forcing of others, in mind or action, under the yoke of our judgment is the only possible way we can break a real Law. To be ourselves and to leave others free is to "be good." Dancing will come and go, and come again; so will fashions of all kinds; conventionalities and creeds; but this Law remains an eternal chalk line to be toed. And eternal torments await him who does not toe it.
As if to add fresh nervousness to the situation, one of the slippers lay pointing quite boldly down-stairs. But the other slipper true as a compass to the north toed with unmistakable severity toward the bedroom. Tentatively little Eve Edgarton inserted one foot in the timid slipper. The path back to her room was certainly the simplest path that she knew and the dullest.
But never was I even engaged, and when permission came from Madrid for the marriage of my sister Rafaella with Luis Argüello he was an officer and could not marry without a special license from the King, and through some strange oversight he was six long years getting it ; well, I lived with them and took care of the children until Rafaella Ay yi! what a good wife she made him, for he 'toed the mark, as the Americans say ; well, she died, and one of those days he married another; for will not men be men?
And there were dolls with black, shiny hair, and red cheeks, and blue eyes, with perfectly arched eyebrows. They had on black shoes and white stockings, with pink garters, and they almost always toed in a little. They looked so cold in the window with nothing but a "shimmy" on, and fairly ached to be dressed, and nursed, and sung to.
"Descend, O my lord!" he cried to Felix; and Felix, still holding the bough tight in his hand, swung himself blindly from the tree, and took his place by Toko. "Toe the line!" Toko cried, and Felix toed it. "Bring up your god!" the Shadow called out aloud to the King of Water.
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