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He never ran if he could help it, because he knew it made his limp more conspicuous, and he adopted a peculiar walk. He stood still as much as he could, with his club-foot behind the other, so that it should not attract notice, and he was constantly on the look out for any reference to it.
But to know which of Hippolyte's tendons to cut, it was necessary first of all to find out what kind of club-foot he had. He had a foot forming almost a straight line with the leg, which, however, did not prevent it from being turned in, so that it was an equinus together with something of a varus, or else a slight varus with a strong tendency to equinus.
Colonel Stone took his youngest daughter, who had a club-foot, up to the Christmas tree for her present, and there met face to face with his enemy's oldest girl, who was just taking the gift for her youngest brother, Robert, holding him up in her bare arms that he might reach it himself.
Young as she was, Elizabeth evidently had, like her unfortunate mistress, "a temper of her own" a spiritual deformity that some people are born with, as others with hare-lip or club-foot; only, unlike these, it may be conquered, though the battle is long and sore, sometimes ending only with life. It had plainly never commenced with poor Elizabeth Hand.
Carey, knowing by what train they were coming, waited in the drawing-room and listened for the click of the gate. When she heard it she went to the door. "There's Aunt Louisa," said Mr. Carey, when he saw her. "Run and give her a kiss." Philip started to run, awkwardly, trailing his club-foot, and then stopped. Mrs.
The varieties of club-foot talipes varus, valgus, equinus, equino-varus, etc. are so well known that they will be passed with mention only of a few persons who have been noted for their activity despite their deformity. Tyrtee, Parini, Byron, and Scott are among the poets who were club-footed; some writers say that Shakespeare suffered in a slight degree from this deformity.
Macpherson walked to the threshold, paused, and looked back at Spenser Hale, who sat there silent as a sphinx. 'Good-evening, Mr. Hale. There being no reply, he turned to me with the same ingratiating smile, 'Good-evening, Monsieur Eugène Valmont, he said, 'I shall give myself the pleasure of calling next Wednesday at six for my five shillings. The Ghost with the Club-Foot
I have here my bales of cloth which I carry to Cahors woe worth the day that ever I started on such an errand! I crave your gracious protection upon the way for me, my servant, and my mercery; for I have already had many perilous passages, and have now learned that Roger Club-foot, the robber-knight of Quercy, is out upon the road in front of me.
Meanwhile the conversation of Messieurs Droz and Lepany had taken a fresh turn, and attracted a little circle of listeners, among whom I observed an eccentric-looking young man with a club-foot, an enormously long neck, and a head of short, stiff, dusty hair, like the bristles of a blacking-brush. "Queroulet!" said Lepany, with a contemptuous flourish of his pipe. "Who spoke of Queroulet?
Indeed, it is the affliction of any one who has any physical peculiarity a hare-lip, for example. Byron raged all his life against his club-foot, and doubtless that malformation was largely the cause of his savage contempt for a world that went about on two well-matched feet. I am sure that if I had a strawberry mark on the face I should never think about anything else.
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