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"Well, sir," says Alan, "I am nae weathercock. Thirty guineas, if ye land me on the sea-side; and sixty, if ye put me in the Linnhe Loch." "But see, sir, where we lie we are but a few hours' sail from Ardnamurchan," said Hoseason. "Give me sixty, and I'll set ye there." "And I'm to wear my brogues and run jeopardy of the red-coats to please you?" cries Alan.
He was strong-built, round-shouldered, bow-legged, about five feet six in height, and he had that kind of external respectability about him, which a tolerably decent hat, strong brogues, and worsted stockings give to a man, when those among whom he lives are without such luxuries.
They all tan skins, and make brogues. As we travelled through Sky, we saw many cottages, but they very frequently stood single on the naked ground.
One day Pat made his appearance with an important look, his brogues stamping the carpet with unwonted energy, his fine bare throat stiffened into a sort of dignified hauteur, and his very keen hazel eyes sparkling under the bushy luxuriance of chestnut curls that clustered about his face and fell on his neck. The very beau ideal of a wild Irish youth was my friend Pat.
I shall see to it, that when due time comes thou shalt be whitened and sleeked to the very utmost. But look thou! thou art a handy wench; take the deer-skin that hangs up yonder and make thee brogues for thy feet, if so thou wilt.
But even the generals had long been out at elbows; and there were few of the common men whose habiliments would have been thought sufficient to dress a scarecrow in a more prosperous country. Now, at length, for the first time in many months, every private soldier could boast of a pair of breeches and a pair of brogues.
Depend upon it, had I endeavoured to divert him from exposing himself, he would have treated me as an ignorant conceited coxcomb, or perhaps might have taken a fancy to cut my throat; a pleasure which he once proposed to himself upon some point of etiquette, not half so important, in his eyes, as this matter of boots or brogues, or whatever the CALIGAE shall finally be pronounced by the learned.
The sun had set, but the moon had not yet risen as they sat in the starlight on the sand near the temporary abode. "What's the things you said made the boots for the people, Paddy?" asked Dick, after a pause. "Which things?" "You said in the wood I wasn't to talk, else " "Oh, the Cluricaunes the little men that cobbles the Good People's brogues. Is it them you mane?"
He drew them on over his own stockinged legs, and the fisherman kicked the brogues towards him. In exchange the convict handed him his own shoes. "Am I to wear these?" the fisherman asked, with something in his voice that might have been amusement. "Yes; they're a little out of shape, I'm afraid. The Queen is no judge of a shoe." "I guess not!" answered the other, lacing.
'Barefit or brogues, said he, 'she'll see no man from this till the day she gaes! And he's the man to keep his word; but it looks as though we might shuffle the pack noo and start a new game, for the plans o' flittin' her to Dunbarton hae fallen through, I hear, and he'll hae to produce her before ye leave." "I'm in no hurry," said Count Victor, coolly twisting his moustache. "What!
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