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"But if he accepts your gifts he has no further claim on me." "Nor on me either," said the Dame. "Hark ye, young man, you mortals are apt to make a hobble of your three wishes, and you may end with a sausage at your nose, like your betters." "I have thought of it too often," replied the farmer, "and I know what I want. For my first wish I desire imperishable beauty."
My word! what would he be like when Dr Morley had done with him, and he began to crawl about and use his cane to help him hobble, instead of being so jolly handy with it in his fashion?" "Peter Pegg, that's a nasty, revengeful way of talking." "Is it, sir?" said the young private, giving himself a twist, as if in recollection of a tap with the cane. "Yes.
She did not understand yet, she only felt, and felt so keenly, that she could not bring herself to speak of it, even to Ogden Van Lennop, who still supposed that she had gone as an invited guest. The change which a marcelled pompadour, kimona sleeves, a peach-basket hat, and a hobble skirt wrought in the appearance of Mrs. Andy P. Symes, nee Kunkel, was a source of amazement to Crowheart.
Then he crawled hack to the trunk of the tree and slid down carefully so that he would not frighten the pinto. He went up and took the hobble off Buck Olney's feet, felt in the seam of his coat-lapel, and pulled out four pins, with which he fastened Buck's "pedigree" between Buck's shrinking shoulder-blades.
In my line a fellow's got to know human nature. If I'd sprung the hobble on the Avenue five years ago I'd gone broke on the gamble; but I sprung the idea on 'em at just the right time." Her hand, long and slim, lay like a bit of carved ivory on the sand; he leaned forward and covered it with his. "I want to see a great deal of you while I'm down here."
But I manage to hobble after you with my thoughts, though they whirl round and round, but I contrive to hold them fast." And Kala's beauty held Alfred fast, filled his soul, and seized and mastered him. Beauty gleamed forth from Kala's every feature gleamed from her eyes, lurked in the corners of her mouth, and in every movement of her fingers.
The day will come in which you will be old yourselves, and every day is bringing you forward to that period. You will then be sensible of the impropriety of your present conduct." Having thus spoken, he endeavoured to hobble on again, and made a second stumble, when, in struggling to save himself from falling, he dropped his cane, and down he fell.
The boots themselves had been once of varnished kid or fine calf, but they were cracked and cut, partly by use, partly for comfort; for it was plain that their wearer had the gout, by his aristocratic hobble upon a gold-mounted cane, which was not the least inconsistent garniture of his mendicancy. "Boys," said Fitzchew Smy, "I s'pose we better come down early. There's a shillin', Beau.
Then Bill started a blaze roaring in the black-mouthed fireplace to make it look natural, he said and went out to hobble his horses for the night. In the morning they began to unpack their household goods. Rugs and bearskins found each its accustomed place upon the floor. His books went back on the shelves. With magical swiftness the cabin resumed its old-home atmosphere.
Panting with anger, and fierce with curiosity, she had forgotten her rheumatism and abandoned her martyred hobble for a waddling run. Thus she pounced out at the foot of the stairway, and was upon the girl before the three absorbed actors in the scene had heard the shuffling feet in woollen slippers.
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