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'My respects to Madame Armstrong, he said, when the landlady's middle-aged daughter came in and smoothed her apron as a sign of respect to Monsieur le Médecin. 'I am a few moments late, but I am here to keep my appointment. Out went Mademoiselle Adèle, and her slippered footsteps faded up the staircase.
Nevermore should I see my peaceful study at Fernbridge Seminary for Young Ladies, with its cozy armchair, its comforting stool, or rest, for the slippered feet, its neatly arranged tea table! Nevermore should I spend the tranquil evening hours with Wordsworth and with Tennyson!
Julia herself was sitting before the fire now, one slippered foot to the blaze. Four years in London life had left her as lovely as ever; perhaps there was even an increase of beauty in the lines of her closed lips, a certain accentuation of the old spiritual sweetness in her look.
One or two cowed travellers slippered up responsive to the call, and we, the veterans who endured, set our teeth, shuddered, and smoked feverish cigarettes on the platform among the carriage-wheels and points; or, if we were new hands, watched awfully the advent of another sleeping train, as dingy as our own yet a hero of romance!
They called her, and she turned deliberately, one dainty, slippered foot, with its crossed black ribbons about the slender ankle, just leaving the stair below, and showing the arch of the aristocratic instep. Her gown was blue and she held it back just enough for the stiff white frill of her petticoat to peep below. Well she read the admiration in the eyes below her.
"Why, yes, Phronsie," said Mother Fisher, giving another gentle rock to Baby's cradle, "of course we can, because we must. That isn't like you, dear, to want Polly back till Aunty has got through needing her." Phronsie gave a sigh and thoughtfully drew her slippered foot over the pattern of the carpet. "It would be so very nice," she said, "if Aunty didn't need her."
So I spent the first day, and the greater part of the second, in the laziest manner possible, in a rocking-chair, inhaling the fragrance of a series of cigars, with my legs and slippered feet horizontally disposed, and in my hand a novel purchased of a railroad bibliopolist. The gradual waste of my cigar accomplished itself with an easy and gentle expenditure of breath.
A faint rustle in the impenetrable blackness of his prison turned the current of his thoughts. A rat, he thought, and drew himself to a sitting attitude, and beat his slippered heels upon the ground to drive away the loathly creature. Instead, a voice challenged him out of the gloom. "Who's there?" It startled him for a moment, in his complete assurance that he had been alone.
He spoke so earnestly that his wife involuntarily started. "My dear," she replied, looking at him with a tear in her eye, "it is only natural." Her husband said nothing, but shook his slippered foot, and his neck sunk a little lower in his limp, white cravat.
But he classed them say, with the croquettes adorned with pink paper frills which were then invariably served at the suppers of the Lichfield German Club, as acceptable enough, upon a conscious holiday, but wholly incongruous with the slippered ease of home.
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