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Putting his violin-case on the table, Joyselle took off his hat and with some difficulty pulled his arms out of his greatcoat sleeves. Then, taking his guest by the arm, he very softly opened the door leading to the basement, and started down the stairs, soft-footed as a great cat.
Her mouth wore a look of satisfied passion; she wiped from it a streak of red. She caught my gaze, bent down, and struck me on the eyes with the handkerchief in her hand: it was like drawing the edge of a knife across them, and for a moment or two I was blind. I heard a dull heavy sound, as of a large soft-footed animal alighting from a little jump.
Castle Hapsburg would open his eyes. He would learn what an impregnable castle really is. If Duke Charles thought he could bring his soft-footed Walloons, used only to the mud roads of Burgundy, up the stony path to the hawk's crag, why, let him try! Harmless boasting is a boy's vent.
Enduring, determined, resourceful, quick-witted, soft-footed, he holds out against a pack of enemies that keep continually at his heels, and runs in his race the race of all life, winning for all life, with our help, a long lease yet upon the earth. For here is Reynard sitting upon a knoll in the road, watching me tear down upon him in a thirty-horse-power motor-car.
But in walked this little plump, soft-footed woman, with her banded hair, her benevolent spectacles, and her atmosphere of calm. "I guess I'll blaze a fire, Jonas," said she. "You step out an' git me a mite o' kindlin'." The air of homely living enwrapped him once again, and mechanically, with the inertia of old habit, he obeyed.
The man turned to go, but he had not reached the end of the hall when the front-door bell rang again. He went soft-footed to answer it. Scott glanced over his shoulder as the door opened, and heard his own name. "Is Mr. Studley here?" a man's voice asked. "Yes, sir. Just here, sir," came the answer, and Scott rose with a weary gesture. "Oh, here you are!" Airily Guy Bathurst advanced to meet him.
Hedwig sat like a Scandinavian fairy princess on the summit of a glass hill; her friend roamed through life like a beautiful soft-footed wild animal, rejoicing in the sense of being, and sometimes indulging in a little playful destruction by the way.
"First-rate, come ahead in and take a seat." Closing the door noiselessly Fong moved soft-footed to a chair beside the table. Here, taking off his hat and putting it in his lap, he fixed a look on Burrage that might have been the deep gaze of a sage or the vacant one of a child.
The way lay almost level along a fairly wide strip of lush-green grass with only a soft-footed, eight-inch path marking the route, and heavy jungle giving unbroken shade. Then came a hard climb, just when I had begun to hear the river and was laying plans for a drink and a swim, and the trail led me far up on the grassy brow of a mountain, from which spread a vast panorama of pine-clad world.
For the moment she could just sit still and be waited on by the soft-footed, soft-spoken manservant who seemed such a curious adjunct to the household of an Arab chief. "Monseigneur begs that you will excuse him until this evening. He will return in time for dinner," he murmured as he handed her a cous-cous. Diana looked up blankly. "Monseigneur?" "My master. The Sheik."
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