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He commonly had a cigar in his mouth, carried a pocket pistol, of the non-explosive sort, and a stick with a bulldog's bead for its knob; wore a soft bat, a coarse check suit, a little baggy, and gaiterboots which had been half-soled, a Bohemian-looking personage, altogether. This individual began making explorations in every direction. He was very curious about the place and all the people in it.
You drive your own carriage; you suspend diamonds to your mistress' ears; and I, the organizer of success, whose puffs open the tightest closed pockets, and start up the old louis from the bottom of the old woolen stocking, I am driven to have my boots half-soled. You stint me my existence; you kick as soon as I ask you to pay for the big drums bursted in your behalf."
And if I have come here now, it is because the place lies on my way to Trovatn, up in the hills. All is as it was before here now, save for thin ice on the river above and below the rapids, and snow on the ice again. I take care to buy clothes and equipment here in the town, and, having got a good new pair of shoes, I take my old ones to the cobbler to be half-soled.
"I've got to go over to Otto Kling's," she announced bluntly, without any attempt at apologies. "Some one of ye must go up and bail Mike out any one of ye will do. Mr. Kelsey spoke first, so maybe he'd better go. I'd go myself and sign the bond only I'm no good, for I don't own a blessed thing in the world, except the shoes I stand in and they're half-soled and not paid for; John's got the rest.
With a hurried good-bye to the girls at the gate, Philippa rushed up the stairs to her brother's room. The bureau drawers had all been emptied on the bed, and every chair was full. "Here's some things that need buttons," he announced, as she came in. "Aunt Eunice is pressing my best suit, and Mack has gone down-town after the shoes that I left to be half-soled.
They had been half-soled and heeled and my sister had taken them home, with orders what to bring home for supper. The last handful of peat had been put on the fire. The cobbler's bench had been put aside for the night and we gathered closely around the hearth. The town clock struck eight. "What th' h l's kapin' th' hussy!" Jamie said petulantly.
You'd better look out for yourself first, and see what you're up to! RISPOLÓZHENSKY. Lemme go! He plundered his father-in-law! And he's swindling me. A wife, four children, worn-out boots! TISHKA. You can have 'em half-soled. RISPOLÓZHENSKY. What're you talking about? You're a swindler, too! TISHKA. Not at all, sir; never mind. PODKHALYÚZIN. Oh! But what are you moralizing about?
On a patch of earth, close by the side of the rampart and where the moisture had percolated sufficiently to soften the ground, was the plain imprint of a man's foot, shod in miner's brogans, and half-soled. Nor was that all. The half-soling had evidently been home work, and the supply of pegs had been exhausted.
It was really scanderlous, though to be sure Mister 'iggs paid up everythin' to the last farthin' and it fairly brought tears to my eyes to see his dear empty boots lyin' there in the corner of his room, which alone showed trouble of mind for he always stood 'em up straight as solgers, though bein' half-soled twice they hadn't, of course, been worth takin' away."
Not only were they all half-soled with it but the merry wags had decorated the ladies' bare backs and the men's coated backs, until all looked like sandwich men or peripatetic ragpickers. Trymie Icanspoon crowned Mrs. Charity Givens with a fresh sheet of tanglefoot and Warble hilariously made a foolscap of another for the Rector's bald head.
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