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Updated: May 10, 2025
"You have been just as plucky as a girl can be, and in only a little over two months you have grown as lightfooted and hearty as a boy. I think nothing could be lovelier than you are now, but you can get off those other few pounds if you want to. You know, don't you, that I have known how hard some of it was, and I haven't been able to eat as much as I usually do, thinking how hungry you are?
And Piers went from him lightfooted, a smile upon his lips. He knew that his tacit overture for peace had been accepted for the time at least. It was growing very dark in the little church, almost too dark to see the carving of the choir-stalls, and Avery gave a short sigh of weariness.
It was very late when she returned lightfooted to Froggy's sitting-room, and, kneeling by her friend's side, interposed her dark head between the kind, bulging eyes and the open Bible that lay upon the table. "Froggy," she whispered softly, "I'm so happy, dear so happy!" And so kneeling, she told Froggy in short, halting sentences of the sudden splendour that had glorified her life.
There was a small grand-piano in this room, a larger piano in the big, empty reception room on the other side of the house, Susan and Emily had a small upright for their own use, and there were one or two more in other parts of the house. Everywhere was exquisite order, exquisite peace. Lightfooted maids came and went noiselessly, to brush up a fallen daisy petal, or straighten a rug.
As a fact, he has to describe an incident which occurs nowhere else in Homer, though it may often have occurred in practice a hurried council during a demoralised night, and the hasty arraying of two spies, who wish to be lightfooted and inconspicuous.
I was, in fact, halfway through dinner when, without a word of warning, a man who seemed to enter with a lightfooted speed that, considering his size, was almost incredible, drew a chair toward him and took the vacant place at my table. My glass of wine and my plate were moved with smooth and marvelous haste to his vicinity.
But Maxwell poured contempt upon the bare suggestion. Chris elope with a Frenchman! He could as easily see himself eloping with the Goat a pet name that he and his brother had bestowed upon Mademoiselle Gautier, and which fitted her rather well upon occasion. Three hours after sunrise the prodigal returned, lightfooted, gay of mien.
She went back to her horse as lightfooted and graceful as an antelope. But he did not look up after her, nor did he respond to her cordial parting. For a long time after she rode away he continued to crouch as she had left him, motionless, almost torpid with the immensity of his loss. The sun sank lower and lower. It touched the skyline of High Mesa and dipped below.
"He stepped carefully over the shaky planks, not being anxious to get a sprained ankle, and picked his way across the waste ground to the foot of the house ladder. The house was but a glorified hut on piles, unfenced and lonely. "Like many a stout man, Davidson is very lightfooted.
If the machinery of justice ground so loosely and so blindly, there remained no reason why he himself, however recklessly he went his way, should not in the end disregard its engines and evade its ever-impending cogs. He would show them! He would teach them that red-tape and officialism could only blunder blindly on at the heels of his elusive and lightfooted wariness.
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