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"Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits 'Hold your tongue, they say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!" "In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address.
It proved to be the side-door bell, which was rung by an old woman who had lost her husband and her front teeth, and was engaged in the precarious occupation of selling shoe-strings.
"Oh, yes; we do that here!" "But I don't mind loose shoe-strings," he said. "Not if they're yours." "They'll find out what you do mind." "But suppose," he said, looking at her whimsically; "suppose I wouldn't mind anything so long as it's yours?" She courtesied. "Oh, pretty enough! But a girl who's talked about has a weakness that's often a fatal one." "What is it?"
"Pull off yer shoes an' toast yer feet," he said to Harry. "The fire'll draw the tiredness right out." Harry's relaxed fingers fumbled vainly with the wet and obstinate shoe-strings. Aunt Debby came up with a large bowl of milk in each hand, and a great circular loaf of corn-bread under her arm.
He said that Uncle will make a first class "street man," and that he has arranged for a line of goods for him and that he has a "territory" that Uncle can occupy. He showed me a flat cardboard box filled with lead pencils and shoe-strings and little badges and buttons with inscriptions on them, and he says these are what is called a "line," and that Uncle can take out this line and do splendidly.
There was another long silence. Then Thomas found himself upon his feet, feeling for his hat, groping like a blind man. "Good-by, Persis. I wish I'd been a better man. But the fact is I ain't fit to tie your shoe-strings, and that ends it. Good-by." He held out his hand, a formality unprecedented. She realized that he meant it for good-by, not good night.
Now, child, introduce me to your Frieda and get back on the train at once." "Here she is," said Hannah, casting one more sad look at the shattered cake, over which a baggage-man had rolled a heavy truck. "And, Frieda, Miss Eliot is the one to go to, always, when you need anything, from shoe-strings to a scolding. O, Catherine, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to help!"
It will do quite well enough plain. Now, Anne, do not you think that as long as dress is neat, which of course it must be, prettiness does not signify? 'Perhaps I might think so, if I had to trim my own bonnets, said Anne, laughing. 'Ah! you do not think so Anne, you who have everything about you, from your shoe-strings upwards, in the most complete order and elegant taste.
He who, for years, had been accustomed to look at men, not only in the face, but very impertinently over their heads, could not drag his shambling vision now higher than men's shoe-strings. His eye, his heart, his soul was on the ground. He was disappointed, crushed. Not a syllable did he utter; not a single word of remonstrance and advice did he presume to offer in the presence of his associates.
The chilly and threadbare street-venders of shoe-strings, pencils and cheap flowers, who to-night were offering in their place tin toys, mistletoe and holly-boughs, he pushed roughly out of his way; he snapped angrily at beggars who had the temerity to accost him. "Confound them! They ought to be run in by the police!"
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