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When the next one comes, though, we'll take care and not let him out of our sight. Why didn't you tie a string to one of those Indians, as I advised?" "Because they tied me first," answered White, laughing in spite of his anxiety. "Why didn't you do it yourself?" "Because all the tying apparatus was aboard the schooner, and I hadn't so much as a shoe-string about me.
Their three pairs of eyes clung to her face as Isidore repeated: "All gettin' married. Ain't it funny?" "Well, no, dear," answered Teacher musingly. "You know nearly all young ladies do it." Patrick took a pin from Teacher's desk and kneeled to tie his shoe-string. When he rose the point of the pin projected half an inch beyond the frayed toe of his shoe, and he was armed.
"I believe the beggars did, without knowing it. I did even I, a woman. I felt I must see if she'd be as pretty when she lifted her veil to eat the chestnut, so I stopped not far off, on the Monaco end of the bridge, and pretended to tie up my shoe-string. I thought I'd never seen a face like hers not at all modern, somehow. Who is it says romance is the quality of strangeness in beauty?
I hope you have liked your nice breakfast, and will come some other time and split more wood for us. Good-bye, Mr. Tramp, I've got to go." "Are you ready, Cherry?" "Almost," came the muffled reply from the stiffly-starched little figure sitting on the floor struggling with a broken shoe-string. "Why, Peace, where are you going?" "Where do you s'pose?
As she spoke she pulled the tag off a shoe-string because it would not go through the eyelet. "What is that?" asked Fanny, in a hard voice. "I think it is cruelty and tyranny," said Ellen, pulling the rough end of the string through the eyelet. "I suppose the times are pretty hard," ventured Andrew; but Ellen cut him short.
This little graveyard of Braemar, lying among the moors and mountains which surround Balmoral, and accustomed to receiving illustrious pilgrims whose shoe-string the poor gravestone tramp is not worthy to unloose, is still used for indiscriminate burials, and furnishes several examples of Roman Catholic interments.
Papa hasn't got a shilling; and though Eleanor is well enough, she has not at all a taking style of beauty. I'm sure I don't know how she's to do better than marry John Bold; or as well indeed," added the anxious sister, giving the last twist to her last shoe-string. Dr Grantly felt keenly the injustice of this attack; but what could he say?
"Mike, some of them are faster than others, I suppose." "'Tis what half the shoe-string gamblers in the camp have tried to find out. I may have me own opinion, but it's to meself I'll kape it till afther the races are run. I will not spile sport. Have ye seen the last cayuse that's bein' put in? "You mean the cow pony that came in with the bunch of cattle from the Napa Valley yesterday?"
She would have loved, have gloried, to pull off that blue ribbon, put it on her own black braid, and tie up those yellow curls with her own shoe-string with a vicious yank of security. But all the time it was not so much because she wanted the ribbon as because she did not wish to be slighted in the distribution of things.
Many of the interior doors still open with the old thumb-latch; but the piece of shoe-string to pull and lift it is now relegated to the cottages, and fast disappearing even there before brass-handled locks.
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