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Some people would call it sane. I call it just cowardice! Jack had lost his last chance, you see. Morgana Royal threw him over." Seaton paced along with a velvet-footed stride like a tiger on a trail. "Had she led him on?" "Rather! She leads all men 'on' or they think she does. She led YOU on at one time!" Seaton turned upon him with a quick, savage movement. "Never!
Incidentally also his lungs felt strangely stifled with the scent of June. Close at his right an effulgent white and gold syringa bush flaunted its cloying sweetness into his senses. Close at his left a riotous bloom of phlox clamored red-blue-purple-lavender-pink into his dazzled vision. Multi-colored pansies tiptoed velvet-footed across the grass.
The comradeship of a fugitive, ever on the watch for his fellow men, had made him silent and velvet-footed, and had sharpened his senses to the keenness of knives.
Then he turned and began softly pacing up and down, like some velvet-footed sentinel at the gate of death. Up and down, up and down, softly as the falling snow, for a weary, weary while. Again he stopped and stood, listening intently, at the foot of the stairs; and his gray coat quivered as though there were a draught. Of a sudden, the deathly stillness of the house was broken.
I rang it, and a velvet-footed man in black came in, and gliding up to the Cardinal, placed a paper in his hand. The Cardinal looked at it; while the man stood with his head obsequiously bent, and my heart beat furiously. 'Very good, his Eminence said, after a pause which seemed to me to be endless, 'Let the doors be thrown open. The man bowed low, and retired behind the screen.
I held out for gold, so there was a call for the Bank Manager, and a procession to the safe; of self, Manager and keys, a clerk, and three or four "velvet-footed" white-robed natives.
And he was certain that Fate would never leave a drama unfinished like that. The velvet-footed, rat-faced valet moved noiselessly in the bedroom, placing matters in order for his master's toilet.
They went in to dinner, which was served upon silver-plate, by the light of softly-shaded candles; and while the velvet-footed waiters caused their food to appear and disappear by magic, Thyrsis fulfilled his mission and "threw Socialism" at the company. The company had its guns loaded, and they went at it hot and heavy.
Presently, however, she was seized with a sudden fit of savage playfulness, and throwing herself on the ground before him, she rolled her lithe body to and fro with brief thirsty roars of satisfaction, . . roars that echoed through the whole pavilion with terrific resonance: then rising, she shook herself vigorously and commenced a stealthy, velvet-footed pacing up and down, lashing her tail from side to side, and keeping those sly, emerald-like eyes of hers watchfully fixed on Sah-luma, who merely laughed at her fierce antics.
They were as velvet-footed as cats, and as the girls' eyes became more accustomed to the gloom they discovered that the gypsies were not hunch-backed, as had first appeared, but merely carried upon their backs packs like those others scattered about the cave. These they deposited on the floor without much ceremony and were gone before the girls and boys had fairly realized it.
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