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Updated: May 23, 2025
She came closer to him, looking up from her compact little five-feet-two with discerning eyes. "John!" she exclaimed. She came still nearer and laid her gloved hands upon his sleeve. "John! you know something about this." "I should like to know more," he said suavely. "I am afraid Millicent will be inconvenienced." Lady Cantourne looked keenly at him for a moment.
She was ashamed to ask Tess to read the description of the strangely charming heroine, but Tess knew what friendship demanded, and read: "'I am something over five-feet-two, with brown hair that hangs in rich chestnut tresses far below my waist." "Oh," put in Missy modestly, while her heart palpitated, "my hair is just mouse-coloured."
Bud Smith it was, Bud Smith, five-feet-two, with a complexion prairie wind had made like a lobster display in a cafe window, who had halted at the door, but who now came back, he it was who spoke. "And while you're in the talkin' business," he suggested slowly, "you might elab'rate what you meant a bit ago by intimatin' that I had cold feet.
Now, I dare say little five-feet-two deserved all that was said of him, and all he will get by way of punishment; but the point about the remark that interests me is the contempt it revealed for the man of small stature. There's no doubt that a little man starts with a grievance, with an aggravating sense of an inferiority that has nothing to do with his real merits. I know the feeling.
I've 'ad enough of 'is bullyin'. It ain't even as if 'e was a decent figure of a man. 'E don't stand more'n five-feet-two. I could knock 'im out with one 'and, and I'd 'ave done it before now only you mustn't out there. If you did you'd get a pound o' lead pumped into you."
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