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Updated: June 16, 2025
The dinner was served by one Dimitri, a brawny, slow-moving Greek. Dimitri was dressed in a home-spun braided jacket and homespun Turkish trousers, shaped like baggy riding-breeches, and his complete impenetrability to new ideas was only equalled by the solemnity and touching willingness with which he received them.
"It will be very fine," said Hamil. His voice sounded a trifle tired. He had ridden many miles since sunrise. There was marl on his riding-breeches. Cardross continued to examine the work in progress through his binoculars. Presently he said: "You've been overdoing it, haven't you, Hamil? My wife says so." "Overdoing it?" repeated the young man, not understanding. "Overdoing what?"
Those beautiful young swells in riding-breeches and tight gray jackets approached an Italian type of cavalry officer; they did not look very vigorous, and the common soldiers we saw marching through the streets, largely followed by the populace, were not of formidable stature or figure, though neat and agreeable enough to the eye.
He knew the driver was an Easterner, for no Westerner would ever rig himself out in such an absurd fashion the cream-colored Stetson with the high pointed crown, extra wide brim with nickel spangles around the band, a white shirt with a broad turndown collar and a flowing colored tie blue; a cartridge belt that fitted snugly around his waist, yellow with newness, so that the man on the mesa almost imagined he could hear it creak when its owner moved; corduroy riding-breeches, tight at the knees, and glistening boots with stiff tops.
"That is the right spirit, and I wish I could go with you; but my troop will wear a sort of uniform, Norfolk jackets and riding-breeches, and the outfitters are so overwhelmed with orders that it will be another couple of days at least before they are ready. Then the men must have two or three days' drill before they start; I am still short of horses, so I will ride on and see Duncan.
Both Jimmie and Bart are provided with saddle-horses, with chaps chaps, my dear Roger, are wide, baggy, shaggy, ill-fitting riding-breeches, made, I believe, out of goat's hide with the hairy side out! spurs and quirts in short, all the necessary paraphernalia and accoutrements of a couple of knights of the cattle country. If they lose the two hundred dollars we win the two outfits!
He was about to cross the square, when he was hailed. "Hello, Jack! I say, Hillard!" Hillard wheeled and saw Merrihew. He, too, was in riding-breeches. "Why, Dan, glad to see you. Were you in the park?" "Riverside. Beastly cold, too. Come into the Plaza and join me in a cup of good coffee." "Had breakfast long ago, boy." "Oh, just one cup! I'm lonesome."
Then Oswald said, 'We WERE playing at fox-hunting, but we couldn't find anything but a rabbit that hid, so my brother was being the fox; and then we found the fox shot dead, and I don't know who did it; and we were sorry for it and we buried it and that's all. 'Not quite, said the riding-breeches gentleman, with what I think you call a bitter smile, 'not quite.
He affects riding-breeches and leather leggings and looks, physically as well as sartorially, as though he had been born on horseback. He has more chilled steel nerve than any man I know, and before he had been in Belgium a month his name became a synonym throughout the army for coolness and daring.
Plunging into the cold, sparkling water of the Narzan Spring, I felt my bodily and mental powers returning. I left the baths as fresh and hearty as if I was off to a ball. After that, who shall say that the soul is not dependent upon the body!... On my return, I found the doctor at my rooms. He was wearing grey riding-breeches, a jacket and a Circassian cap.
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