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He had on strong, iron-heeled shoes, of English make, which he said cost him seventeen dollars in Richmond. I put the question, in a quiet, friendly way, to several of the prisoners, what they were fighting for. One answered, "For our homes."
To the left the women, with red silk 'kerchiefs on their heads, shag caftans with bright red sleeves, and blue, green, red, striped and dotted skirts and iron-heeled shoes. Behind them stood the more modest women in white 'kerchiefs and gray caftans and ancient skirts, in shoes or bast slippers. Among these and the others were dressed-up children with oiled hair.
They saw him fling himself from the saddle they saw Antonia run to meet him; they heard her voice full of distress they knew it was the voice of complaint. They were aware it was answered by a stamp on the flagged hall of the doctor's iron-heeled boot which rang through the whole house, and which was but the accompaniment of the fierce exclamation that went with it.
It is like killing a grasshopper with a pair of iron-heeled clogs. It is precious heavy, I can tell you." "You rude, unmannerly boy," and here Elizabeth attempted to pull his hair, but she might as well have tried her prentice hand on a young convict freshly shorn by the prison barber. "Hands off, Betty, I tell you," returned the graceless lad. "I have had rather a good time of it.
Hence these "general quarters," which is a mustering of all hands to their stations at the guns on the several decks, and a sort of sham-fight with an imaginary foe. The summons is given by the ship's drummer, who strikes a peculiar beat short, broken, rolling, shuffling like the sound made by the march into battle of iron-heeled grenadiers.
"Do you agree?" said John Mangles, who was not in the least put out by the captain's peculiarities. "We'll see," said the master of the MACQUARIE. Will Halley took two or three turns on the poop, making it resound with iron-heeled boots, and then he turned abruptly to John Mangles. "What would you pay?" said he. "What do you ask?" replied John. "Fifty pounds." Glenarvan looked consent.
He had on strong, iron-heeled shoes, of English make, which he said cost him seventeen dollars in Richmond. I put the question, in a quiet, friendly way, to several of the prisoners, what they were fighting for. One answered, "For our homes."
Suddenly a challenge "Wie kom dar?" rang out from half-way up the hill. Silence would serve no longer, and indeed it had been broken again and again by the clang of iron-heeled boots on loose stones. So the order to fix swords was given, and passed in stentorian tones along the front.
At a given signal, the covers were removed, and some dozen of iron-heeled soldiers, dressed in various liveries, commenced scattering the soup and fish about with the same reckless indifference to consequences with which they would have stormed a breach.
He was immediately recognized as one of them; the handkerchief was thrown down, and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged. Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience, and the mob retired.
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