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"Such a fool!" she whispered vehemently, and stamped her white-shod foot upon the carpet. "He looked perfectly disgusted and so did that other man. And no wonder. Such it's vulgar, Val Fleetwood! It's just ill-bred, and coarse, and horrid!" She threw herself upon the bed and put her face in the pillow.
A grinning negro shuffled up and closed the gate as they left the grove together and started across the lawn. Cardross, cordial in his quick, vigorous manner, strolled with his hands in his coat pockets, planting each white-shod foot firmly as he walked, frequently turning head and shoulders squarely toward his companion when speaking.
Through the embroidery insertion of her fresh, stiff dress she showed glimpses of a snowy bosom, and under her crisp skirt a ruffle of white petticoat and white-shod feet were visible. She was panting from her walk and wiped her glowing face with her handkerchief before she spoke.
Fortescue waved Kettle away and marched into the hall, where she met Colonel Fortescue coming out of his office. "It's Broussard," she whispered to the Colonel. Together they entered the long drawing-room. Broussard and Anita were leaning forward; Anita's face was still deeply flushed. Her beloved white dove fluttered, unnoticed, about her white-shod feet.
She paused at the top of the stairs there was a strip of green velvet carpet running down the middle of the marble steps; her white gown came just to her ankles, and the narrow white-shod feet sank lightly into the green carpet as if it were moss. "I am glad to see that you have made yourself comfortable, George," she said, and smiled her very finest smile.
I'll show you the biggest berry you ever saw in your life and you may eat it, too." Mrs. Chase gathered her white skirts about her, planted her white-shod feet recklessly in the wake of Sally's, and arrived in due time at the point where Sally had been picking. From nearby rows Josephine Burnside, Janet Ferry, and Constance Carew lifted heads to greet her.
Wistfulness was in every line of her face and figure, from the small white-shod foot that rested upon the pedal to the glorious hair that shimmered and shone but still held its tangled lights safely in its silken strands.
All these factors combined to help Jarvis's suggestion. He approached his sister as she sat, rosy cheeked and laughing, on the lowest stair, and stood before her. "That wasn't so bad," he said, approvingly. "You and Jarve had better get out a copyright on that you worked in some pretty fancy steps. Got your skates on to-night, haven't you?" Sally thrust forward a small, white-shod foot.
"We all know that," said Cardross naïvely. "Your aunt is a very fine woman, Hamil.... I don't see why you shouldn't tell Shiela anything you want to. We all wish it." "Thank you," said the younger man. Their hand grip tightened and parted; shoulder to shoulder they swung into step across the lawn, Cardross planting his white-shod feet with habitual precision.
"It must be grand to be on the stage," said Gert enviously. "Well, it's living," said Birdie, airily. "That's more than you can claim for this rotten grind." She put a high-heeled, white-shod foot on the window ledge to adjust its bow, and every eye in the room followed the process. "I bet I make more money in a week," she continued dramatically, "than you all make in a month.
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