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Where should such crawling, footless creatures be?" and Storri pointed to his own somewhat ample foundations as indicating the groveling whereabouts of the Harleys. "But you go there?" remarked the San Reve, flintily suspicious. "No, my San Reve," yawned Storri. "Pardon my grossness; a yawn in the presence of a lady, and I a Russian gentleman! I took the habit from these pig Americans!
"Many geese have cackled and hissed both before and since; but none, like those, have clamored themselves into immortality." There seemed to be little else that demanded notice in this department of the museum, unless we except Robinson Crusoe's parrot, a live phoenix, a footless bird of paradise, and a splendid peacock, supposed to be the same that once contained the soul of Pythagoras.
Here Goodman was laid upon a bed, his shoes cut from his feet, and in a few moments the governor on one side and the doctor on the other were vigorously rubbing the frozen limbs with alcohol. "Shall I lose my feet, Doctor?" asked the patient feebly. "Lose them!" cried the doctor indignantly. "Nay! what use would a footless man be to the Adventurers who sent thee out?
How much more desirable to acquire merit as a footless grub in the heart of a home, erected and precariously nourished by a worthy opponent, with a future of unnumbered possibilities, than to be a queen-mother in nest or hive cared-for, fed, and cleansed by a host of slaves, but with less prospect of change or of adventure than an average toadstool.
His plans for next year, his work in class, his new success with certain ventures which after two years of the hardest, closest pinching, had put within his reach the means to gratify a few little whims, to indulge in a few things his poverty had hitherto forbidden him a few common things the men around him enjoyed, and the lack of which he had ever concealed even from himself all these were made footless by the ache in the bottom of his soul.
I wondered, as I have often wondered of other polyglot people I have met, how much of any language they really know, which language do they think in? They always seem to me to resemble those lumps of floating grass one sees in the Gulf Stream, forever drifting onward, footless and fruitless to the end.
Big Flower was happily intact, and the nightcap also except for a missing string, but the outer layer of the other garments had paid toll to many an affectionate scrub-oak and manzanita, and the stockings that had stood the brunt were practically footless. Pio surveyed the damage ruefully, and rebuked himself for not having preserved his new property by wearing his own clothes outside.
It is like my young mistress will go to her aunt or she will marry one of these Lacys that they talk so much of or, at any rate, she will leave the castle; and it's like old Raoul and I will be turned to grass with the lord's old chargers. The Lord knows, they may as well hang him up with the old hounds, for he is both footless and fangless, and fit for nothing on earth that I know of."
What a mess they make of your time and your work, always requiring so much attention, always having to be waited on, always dropping things, always so much foolish fuss and ceremony, always asking such footless questions and never hearing you when you answer them. Never really knowing anything or saying anything.
"Here are our stockings, Mommy," said the oldest, handing three ragged, almost footless, black stockings to the woman. "It's no use, I tell you. I can't do it." "It won't do any harm, Mommy," urged the girl. "Do you believe in it, too?" asked the mother, and the girl shook her head. "You won't be disappointed in the morning if there's nothing in 'em?"
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