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He allowed I couldn't hold my cue and was going to cut the cloth. Why, I'd play any man in this old town for fifty dollars!" "And beat him!" said Stormont. "Watson told me how you play. But won't you sit down and take a smoke." "I surely will," Drummond replied, and pulling up an easy chair, put his wet snow-boots on Stormont's bed, after which he lighted a cigar.
Was Father Richmond out there still, or had he gone? "Do they think we are heathens because we are not Jesuits?" he said under his breath, suddenly throwing out his great chest. "Perhaps we ought to... Hey? They've been awfully considerate of us " The Colonel went to the door. Father Richmond was struggling with his snow-boots.
The tables were already laid, with dishes of raw ham and salted almonds and various bonnes bouches, while brilliant candelabra shone amidst numerous bottles of champagne. The company seemed to have forgotten the gloom that playing bridge had brought over them, and were as gay again as one could wish, while divesting themselves of their furs and snow-boots.
For want of this latter precaution some specimens were at first rendered imperfect. A pair of snow-boots were now issued gratis to each individual in the expedition, being part of a stock of extra warm clothing liberally furnished by government, to be supplied to the officers and men at my discretion, as occasion should require.
No ... PLEASE!> ... yes, a delightful evening." Her words were almost inaudible. "Delightful indeed!" said Herries with warmth. Then he stood aside, raised his hat, and let them pass. Maurice had his hand on her wrist, and he dragged her after him, over the frozen pavements, far more quickly than she could in comfort go, hampered as she was by snow-boots and by her heavy cloak.
And the boys were never tired of listening to her descriptions of the life so far up in the clouds and snows that the sun was nearly always shining hotly. "I shouldn't mind being sick myself if it was only just to wear those funny snow-boots and walk over the hard snow up and down the mountain-sides," said Mark, reaching out for another piece of gingerbread.
As Hibbert passed through the hall to get his overcoat and snow-boots, he saw men in the passage by the "sport-room," greasing their ski against an early start. Knapsack luncheons were being ordered by the kitchen swing doors. He sighed. Lighting a cigarette a friend offered him, he returned a confused reply to some question as to whether he could join their party in the morning.
"Well, dear, do. You have been shut up long enough by the snow. Wrap yourself up well, and put on my snow-boots." "No, indeed!" said Fleda. "I shall just draw on another pair of stockings over my shoes, within my India-rubbers I will take a pair of Hugh's woollen ones." "What has become of your own?" said Hugh. "My own what? Stockings?" "Snow-boots." "Worn out, Mr. Rossitur!
I shall be back soon; but as I have my bonnet on, I shall go and see Johnny Rye and his mother. Can I do anything for you?" "Oh, my snow-boots! But I would not have you go to Mrs Howell's while she is in such a mood as she was in yesterday. I would not go myself." "Oh! I will go. I am not afraid of Mrs Howell; and we shall have to encounter her again, sooner or later.
He only half existed for her this evening: her manner was as different as her dress. She gathered her skirts high under her cloak, displaying her feet in fur-lined snow-boots. In the turmoil of his mind, Maurice found nothing to say as they went.
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