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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Why, I declare the Shoes look just like my own," said one of the clerks, eying the newly-found treasure, whose hidden powers, even he, sharp as he was, was not able to discover. "One must have more than the eye of a shoemaker to know one pair from the other," said he, soliloquizing; and putting, at the same time, the galoshes in search of an owner, beside his own in the corner.
Only officers and soldiers possess the secret of going about in simple leather boots, or protected merely by a pair of stiff, slapping leather galoshes, accommodated to the spurs.
"Do you object to the way he makes it?" insisted Barbara. "Because rubber is most useful. You put it in golf balls and auto tires and galoshes. There is nothing so perfectly respectable as galoshes. And what is there 'tainted' about a raincoat?" Thorne shook his head unhappily. "It's not the finished product to which I refer," he stammered; "it's the way they get the raw material."
Dear child, Pharaoh laughs before his pyramids; standing before his pyramids he laughs. He would laugh at me, too. Next day we three remaining guests were sitting in the living room. The lady and the actor read one book; I read another. "Will you," she says to him, "do me a great favor?" "With pleasure." "Would you go out in the grounds where we sat yesterday and fetch my galoshes?"
He bumped down into his own seat, gazing back superciliously at the outsiders who were edging into unclaimed seats at the back of the room or standing about the door students from other classes, town girls, the young instructor in French, German, and music; a couple of town club-women in glasses and galoshes and woolen stockings bunchy at the ankles.
It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us. In short, he was travelling.
Fraulein Wundermacher, now I came to think of it, must have been a humourist. She was certainly a clever and a capable woman. But I wished at that moment that she would not haunt me so persistently, and that I could get rid of the feeling that she was just behind in her galoshes, with her hand stretched out to seize me.
But the choice and rare moment of my bright and useful career was when the boss himself called, “Oh, Miss Connie, come mal here, yes?” And when I got mal there he said, “I want you should take my shoes to the cobblers so fort yes?... And be sure you get a check ... and go quick, yes.” Whereupon he removed his shoes and shuffled about in a pair of galoshes. I put on the green tam.
"Ah, I forgot how long you have been stored," said the unreal editor, and he explained as well as he could the new mode of motion, and how already, with its soft rubber galoshes, the automobile had everywhere stolen a march upon the iron heels of the horses in the city avenues. He fancied the Easy Chair did not understand, quite, from the intelligent air with which it eagerly quitted the subject.
I have no right to ask you to put on my galoshes, supposing that there were no lackey at hand. But suppose I were to ask it?" "I would do it with pleasure," replied the count, his earnest face relaxing into a smile. "I will mend your boots, also, if you wish." I thanked him, with regret that my boots were whole, and pursued my point. "But you ought to refuse.
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