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She went into her little bedroom and, remembering that the next morning was a mass morning, changed the hand of the alarm from seven to six. Then she took off her working skirt and her house-boots and laid her best skirt out on the bed and her tiny dress-boots beside the foot of the bed.
For all the nonchalance of his attitude, he looked, from evening tie to thin-soled dress-boots, beautifully spruce, as Aurora had remarked, and made an appropriate pendant to her in her Parisian finery.
After ten minutes given to a preoccupied regard of shoulder-blades, back hair, glittering headgear, neck-napes, moles, hairpins, pearl-powder, pimples, minerals cut into facets of many-coloured rays, necklace-clasps, fans, stays, the seven styles of elbow and arm, the thirteen varieties of ear; and by using the toes of his dress-boots as coulters with which he ploughed his way and that of Lady Mabella in the direction they were aiming at, he drew near to Mrs.
The Terror locked Captain Baster's portmanteau; and as he placed the keys beside the shaving-brush, he said coldly: "That'll teach him not to be so careless." Erebus giggled; then she took the water-jug and filled one of Captain Baster's inviting dress-boots with water. Wiggins rocked with laughter. "Don't stand giggling there! Why don't you do something?" said Erebus sharply.
The supper-room looked so nice, and Carrie truly said: "We need not be ashamed of its being seen by Mr. Perkupp, should he honour us by coming." I dressed early in case people should arrive punctually at eight o'clock, and was much vexed to find my new dress-trousers much too short. Lupin, who is getting beyond his position, found fault with my wearing ordinary boots instead of dress-boots.
All were in most glorious confusion; in the latter, Captain Cutitfat's lacquer-toed, lavender-coloured dress-boots were reposing in the silver soup tureen, and Captain Bouncey's varnished pumps were stuffed into a wine-cooler.
He fumbled under his overcoat for loose silver, drew out a handful and paid off the taximan. Sometimes walking in the gutter in order to avoid the throngs upon the pavement, regardless of the fact that his glossy dress-boots were becoming spattered with mud, Gray hurried off in pursuit of the pair.
You never could have thought of that when I had those dress-boots on." "Of course I didn't. How can you talk such rubbish?" "I don't know whether it is rubbish. Those are the kind of things that must fall upon a woman so heavily. Suppose I were to beat you?" "Beat me!" "Yes; hit you over the head with this stick!" "I am sure you would not do that." "So am I. But suppose I were to?
Since that time you have always thought of me with a white choker and dress-boots." "Don't flatter yourself; I never looked at your boots." "You knew that they were the boots and the clothes of a man making love, didn't you?
And mind you don't set me off talking over-much downstairs. I talk in her presence like the usher of the Court to the judge. 'Tis the secret of my happiness. 'Where are those rascally dress-boots of mine? cried Patrick. Captain Con pitched the contents of the portmanteau right and left. 'Never mind the boots, my boy.
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