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He further routed out Gillian, nothing loth, from her algebra, bidding her put on her seven-leagued boots, and not get bent double and he would fain have seized on his cousin Jane, but she was already gone off for an interview with the landlord of the most eligible of the two houses. Gillian and Valetta came back very rosy, and in fits of merriment.
The inhabitants of the opposite frontier served in her narratives to fill up the parts which ogres and giants with seven-leagued boots occupy in the ordinary nursery tales. And how could it be otherwise?
The good fairy who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep a hundred years was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befell the Princess; but she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf, who had seven-leagued boots, that is, boots with which he could stride over seven leagues of ground at once.
As his case is very pressing, he desired me to make use of his seven-leagued boots, which you see I have on, so that I might make the more haste and that I might show you that I do not impose upon you." The good woman, being greatly frightened, gave him all she had; for this Ogre was a very good husband, though he ate up little children.
A strange exultation moved him, and he dreamt of joy and love. To him, his dreams were more than mere bubbles before his eyes lay all the glory of the earth, and a whole Heaven besides. Ah! if the good god-mother could only have endowed him with seven-leagued boots! He could scarcely wait for the long journey to be finished. And it had not yet begun.
Their pony must have seven-leagued boots, to have caught you up in this time." "Oh! I was overtaken by Undershaw, and he kept me talking. He told me the most extraordinary thing! You've no idea what's been happening at the Tower. That old brute Melrose! But I say !" He made a dash across the room. "What's the matter?" "I must go and put those pictures away, in case "
You haven't been one of those who would have liked to try running this country for a day or two, just to show me how to do it?" "No, sir," I said, laughing. "Good!" he cried, slapping his knee. "I didn't think you were that kind, Steve. Now sit down and tell me about this General of mine who wears seven-leagued boots. What was it four hundred and twenty miles in fifty days?
Whenever Narcissus turned his gleaming spokes along some mapped, but none the less mysterious, county road, he thought of Lohengrin in his barge drawn by white swans to his mystic tryst; he thought of the seven-leagued boots, the flying carpet, the wishing-cap, and the wooden Pegasus, so called because it mounted into the clouds on the turning of a peg.
Sometimes a heavy swell gave it expression; at others, only its varied coloring, which I found more admirable every day, and which gave it an air of mirage instead of the vastness of ocean. Then there was a grandeur in the feeling that I might continue that walk, if I had any seven-leagued mode of conveyance to save fatigue, for hundreds of miles without an obstacle and without a change.
"When Margot knew that the woman was after her she increased her speed, but all in vain; the gipsy came on like the giant with the seven-leagued boots; she caught the terrified child in her arms, put a corner of her ragged cloak into her mouth, and, turning out of the path down into a hollow of the hills, hoped to be clear in a minute more.
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