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At the last moment it occurred to me to try upon him the shibboleth which in Father Cotton's mouth had so mystified me. "This fire burns brightly," I said, kicking the logs together with my riding-boot. "It must be of boxwood." "Of what, sir?" quoth he, politely. "Of boxwood, to be sure," I replied, in a louder tone. "My certes!" he exclaimed. "They do not burn boxwood in this country.
Paul had leaped to the ground, and was already loosening the dead man's foot from the stirrup. He did it with a certain sort of skill, despite the stiffness of the heavy riding-boot, as if he had walked a hospital in his time. Very quickly Steinmetz came to his assistance, tenderly lifting the dead man and laying him on his back.
And from him, for no apparent reason, my eyes wandered to the man upon the bridge a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, in a buff-colored greatcoat, who whistled to himself, and stared down into the stream, swinging his tasselled riding-boot to and fro. All at once, as if in response to some signal, he rose, and unbuttoning his surtout, drew it off and flung it across the handrail of the bridge. Mr.
"It was the obvious conclusion" studying the toe of her smart riding-boot with exaggerated interest. "Otherwise you must have loved Meryl; you could not help it." "I see." The smile dawned in his eyes now. "And was it equally obvious who the other woman was?" She glanced away to hide her tell-tale mouth. "It might have been if it had interested me."
Before they understood what he was about, the thing had taken place. He had leaped forward, caught the young man by the breast of his shimmering doublet, leaped back to shelter beyond mademoiselle, hurled Marius to the ground, and planted his foot, shod as it was in his thickly mudded riding-boot, full upon the boy's long, shapely neck.
Cassilis, with his supercilious smile, "ah, indeed! dragons should be interesting, especially in such a very quiet, shady nook as this, quite an idyllic place for story-telling, it's a positive shame to disturb you," and his sharp, white teeth gleamed beneath his moustache, as he spoke, and he tapped his riding-boot lightly with his hunting-crop as he fronted Bellew, who had risen, and stood bare-armed, leaning upon his pitch-fork.
Up from the top of one riding-boot the butt of a revolver protruded slightly. With her heavy black eyelashes shadowing somberly down across her olive-tinted cheeks, she passed Barton as if she did not even see him and went directly to her father. "I am riding," she murmured almost inaudibly. "In this heat?" groaned her father. "In this heat," echoed Eve Edgarton.
As she swallowed the last mouthful, a recollection came to her of the thrall-women grumbling over Fridtjof's wine-stained tunics; and she carefully drew her sleeve across her mouth as she set down the cup. Leaning back in his seat, the King took frowning measure of his guest, from the toe of her spurred riding-boot to the top of the green cap which she had forgotten to remove.
"Here, a moment!" She dropped the charred curtain and hurried to answer the call. "Ruth! Where's the bootjack? His Honour will take off his riding-boots." "Bootjack, ma'am?" interrupted the Collector, leaning back in a chair and extending a shapely leg with instep and ankle whereon the riding-boot fitted like a glove. "I don't maul my leather with bootjacks.
As he sat there, tapping the hearth-rug with the toe of his thick riding-boot and moving his lips now and then in answer to some question from the young girl, I had time to examine his every feature. Line by line they reproduced my own nay, looking straight into his eyes I could see through them into the soul of him and recognised that soul for my own.
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