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The little foot promptly appeared, very white, very clean, carefully tended indeed, with its scar just below the ankle, a long scar, whose whity seam testified to the gravity of the complaint. Some of the medical men had drawn near, and looked on in silence.
Handsome copperplate engravings of Pisa and of Rome, and pastel portraits in oval frames; the rest of the whity brown panelled wall space hidden by book-cases. These surmounted by softly shining, pearl-grey Chinese godlings, monsters, philosophers and saints, the shelves below packed with neatly ranged books.
Oxen bellowed and jumbled, mules snorted and balked, the herders of the caballada shrieked for help. "Close up! Close up!" "Corral!" "Charge 'em! Meet the beggars!" "No! Under yore wagon, everybody!" "Get out o' my way! Yip! Gee, Buck!" "Haw, Spot! Haw, Whity! Haw with you!" "Durn these mules! We'll all be wolf meat." "Look! There's nigh a thousand of 'em!"
But there was nothing to say, and I looked at Billy, and Billy looked at me. Then suddenly he stretched out his little arms to me, and the dimples winked at me from all over his darling face. "Molly, Molly," he said, with a perfect rapture of chuckles in his voice, "now you look just as pretty as you do when you go to bed all whity all over.
The little foot promptly appeared, very white, very clean, carefully tended indeed, with its scar just below the ankle, a long scar, whose whity seam testified to the gravity of the complaint. Some of the medical men had drawn near, and looked on in silence.
"They called them 'Tods' and 'Toddies, but they had all sorts of names besides, to distinguish one from the other. There was, 'Whity, and 'Browny, and 'Softy, and 'Snuggy, and 'Stripy, and many others. They knew almost every hair of each of them, and I believe could have told which was which, in the dark, merely by their feel.
Oh yes, here in my pocket; there are little whity marks in the black kid already, as if they were going to split. She drew the gloves out, as she spoke, but with them came something else a doubled-up, rather soiled white card. 'What's this? said Frances, as she unfolded it. 'Oh, I declare! Just look, Margaret it's an old Christmas card of last year.
The little foot promptly appeared, very white, very clean, carefully tended indeed, with its scar just below the ankle, a long scar, whose whity seam testified to the gravity of the complaint. Some of the medical men had drawn near, and looked on in silence.
All he could see through the whirling darkness was Mukhorty's dark head, his back covered by the fluttering drugget, and his thick knotted tail; while all round, in front and behind, was the same fluctuating whity darkness, sometimes seeming to get a little lighter and sometimes growing denser still. 'A pity I listened to Nikita, he thought. 'We ought to have driven on.
Just below the ankle there was a long scar, whose whity seam, plainly defined, testified to the gravity of the complaint from which the girl had suffered. "Oh! take hold of the heel, Monsieur l'Abbe," said she. "Press it as hard as you like. I no longer feel any pain at all."
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