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He forgot that habit is of all stays the strongest, and that to women a thousand trifles make up God reward them for it the work of life: a work which instinct moves them to pursue, though the heavens fall. Several hours had elapsed since he had entered hotfoot to see her; and the day was beginning to wane.
Burrowing out from under him, I sprang to my feet aglow with triumph and found myself in the clutch of the second gentleman from the chimney-place, who apparently had come hotfoot to his comrade's aid. I was fairly caught. His arms went round me like steel girders, pinioning mine to my sides before I knew what he was about.
"We didn't see any trader," said the Boy to divert the current. "He may have gone by in the dusk; he was travelling hotfoot." "Thought that steamship was chockful o' grub. What did you want o' fish?" "Yes; they've got plenty of food, but " "They don't relish parting with it," suggested Potts.
I'm thankful I was never one to go trailin' about the country after my relations. I never was away from home more than a day in my life till I was married, and it's been nothing but work ever since, and now to be laid here like a useless log, with everything going hotfoot to destruction!
So would the pistol. It would get hot enough, in fact, to scorch cloth in contact with it. Which had happened. If the effect had been produced in the soles of policemen's feet, Hoddan would have given every cop a hotfoot. But since they carried their stun-pistols in their hip-pockets The thought of Nedda diminished his satisfaction.
Linda rose slowly, shook the sand from her breeches and stretched out her hand. "Let's hotfoot it down to the African village and see what the movies are doing that is interesting today," she proposed.
Carried years before, a little blazing ember of faith, from a flourishing hearth of Nonconformity some streets away, it had puffed and gleamed a little space in the eloquence of the offended zealots who carried it hotfoot that Sunday morning, but its central fire had been poor, and for a long time no evangelistic bellows had awakened in it even a spark.
"I never seen Pete Reeve," said Bull apologetically. "Ah? Yet you're follerin' him hotfoot?" "I was aiming to see him, you know," answered Bull. The tall man regarded him with eyes that began to twinkle beneath his frown. Then he jerked his head aside and cast at his audience a prodigious wink.
"If someone else were to tell you that they had an East Indian yogi who was going to give a seance this very afternoon you would hotfoot it to the telephone to inform Trudy that you must break your engagement with her, and send word to your original hostess as well. That is about all your plans amount to." Beatrice's eyes had grown slanting, shining with rage.
At length it drew on to the hour for Mitchell's dinner and Pete's supper, and they parted with many expressions of elation and good-will. From his window in the Algonquin, Pete Johnson watched Mitchell picking his way across to the Iroquois House, and smiled grimly. "There," he confided to his pipe "there goes a man hotfoot to dig his own grave with his own tongue!
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