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All his mind was upon what the Duchess had told him and upon a new idea which was throbbingly growing into a purpose. Maggie and Barney and Old Jimmie! Maggie in a suite at the Grantham! What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him.
But here is an Irishman, who has been vastly more lucky, dancing a jig, with a footless stocking near him, tied at each end, packed as full as it can hold of 'the fine stuff, as he calls it, while with wonderful agility he flourishes a heavy pickaxe and spade over his head, and screams at the highest pitch of his voice: 'Sure, now, and isn't my fortune made! By and by, getting at once hoarse and tired, he desists from his exertions, and entreats a boy near him 'to go into the bog beyont there, and get him some poteen, which he is sure is making in the stills among the turf; offering him at the same time a lump of his 'treasure' as payment for his trouble.
Over this was the saddle, and on top of the saddle rested his helmet the yellow horsehair plume and gold trimmings looking soiled by long service. His sabre was there, too, and strapped to the saddle on each side were his uniform boots, toes in stirrups all reversed! This riderless horse, with its pall of black, yellow helmet, and footless boots, was the saddest sight imaginable.
During this interval she has laid an egg on the body of the fly which she had previously benumbed with her sting, and which is to serve as food for the soft, footless grub soon to be hatched from the egg. From what I could make out, the Bembex makes a fresh excavation for every egg to be deposited; at least in two or three of the galleries which I opened there was only one fly enclosed.
"Now aren't you glad Miss Raymond got up early that morning?" she said. It was the first time that any one had referred to the story in connection with her election to the Dramatic Club. Eleanor frowned and turned to Beatrice Egerton, who was standing close beside her. "Bess," she said, pouting, "did you run me in because of that footless little story? Wasn't it for myself that you wanted me?
The two sat silent a few moments waiting for Fleetfoot, who did not come, and then Humphrey continued: "The badger hath a thick skin. He goeth into a wasp's nest or a bees' nest, and the whole swarm may sting him and he feeleth it not." "What doth the badger in wasps' nests and bees' nests?" inquired Hugo. "Why, he will eat up their grubs. The eggs make footless grubs, and these the badger eateth.
I have reared you to be a gentleman! And you are going to be a gentleman!" "Well, if that's the way you feel about it," he sighed, "we'll drop the matter temporarily." "We'll drop it permanently!" said Mrs. De Peyster decisively. "Besides, all this talk is utterly footless. You seem to forget that you are sailing with me to Europe to-morrow." "That brings me to the second point.
"Footless, yellow earth-worm," said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something. "Sssss! Have they ever called me that?" said Kaa. "Something of that kind it was that they shouted to us last moon, but we never noticed them.
"A mother, whose heart bleeds every hour as she sees her son torturing himself with footless remorse; that is one.
Fifty yards behind stood the wounded hound gazing after him as if he, too, were endeavouring to ascertain the right direction. The creature was standing upon three legs, the fourth was hanging useless, and the blood was dripping from the footless limb. The man turned away with an impatient shrug and stepped out briskly.
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