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If he dared to ask a question, every man in hearing would answer, each differently, and then the whole multitude would roar with laughter at the lost man, and ask him "if his mother knew he was out?" Very few men had comfortable or fitting shoes, and fewer had socks, and, as a consequence, the suffering from bruised and inflamed feet was terrible.
Here at least once in every 24 hours every man who could possibly have got wet feet, and every man wearing rubber boots, came, had his feet rubbed, and was given dry socks and boots, while at Headquarters and in Bienvillers were large drying rooms where the wet boots could be dealt with.
Coom! you shall see someding." "A moment," said the Creole. "May I inquire you how is that, that you call on us in yo' sock feet?" "Ach! I am already t'e socks putting on pefore I remember I do not need t'em! But coom! coom! see a vonderfool!" He led, and Fontenette, when he had blown a cloud of smoke through his nose, followed, saying exclusively for his own ear: "A wonder fool, yes!
He said that you wore white socks, and that the boys liked you and called you 'Uncle Billy. And I told him that was the best recommendation he could give anybody." I was frightened. But the General only looked at me with those eyes that go through everything, and then he laughed. "Brice," he said, "You'll have my reputation ruined." "Sherman," said Mr.
Entertainments were going on all the while in the neighborhood, and he had ample opportunities of advertising the fact, all of which he improved, while a puzzled audience knew not what to make of so novel a situation, and were sorely put to it for suitable replies as they stared at an Adonis in Poole-cut clothes who sat and looked alternately at them and his patent-leather court pumps and gay silk socks while he affably denounced his father's nephew and "hoped the blackguard was goin' to New Orleans and would get the yellow fever there, which was beginnin' to be had over from the Havana."
But the men did not come, and I would say to myself over and over again, "Man proposes, God disposes; it is His will and best for all." The flour mould nauseated me to such an extent that for a day at a time I could not force myself to eat it. I wore two pairs of woollen socks, but holes already were beginning to appear in the toes and heels.
"My dear," says Lady Montresor, with her light aristocratic laugh, "you surely cannot seriously think of marrying a man who wears socks with yellow spots?" Lady Emmelina sighs. "He is very nice," she murmurs, "but I suppose you are right. I suppose that sort of man does get on your nerves after a time." "My dear child," says Lady Montresor, "he is impossible."
Mary was shorter than her sisters, but she was the one that had the color. And with it she had a stillness that was not theirs. Mary's face brooded more deeply than their faces, but it was untroubled in its brooding. She had learned to darn socks for her own amusement on her eleventh birthday, and she was twenty-seven now.
Again we encountered a great many dead strewn on the road; many of them had died from cold; some still had their arms, young men, well dressed, their cloaks, shoes, and socks, however, were taken from them. Half way to Ochmiana we took a rest at a bivouac which had been evacuated quite recently." "The night we passed here was fearful.
He handed his watch to little Collett, and gave him the ropes, pitched coat and waistcoat on his knees, stood free of boots and socks, and singing out, truly enough, the words of a popular cry, 'White ducks want washing, went over and in. She soon had to know she was chased. She had seen the dive from the boat, and received all illumination.
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