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The tunic fell in folds to the knee, and the close- fitted cloth hose were of a rich dark brown. Sir Arnold wore short riding-boots of dark purple leather, having the tops worked round with a fine scarlet lacing; but the spur-leathers were of the same colour as the boot and the spurs themselves of steel, small, sharp, unornamented, and workmanlike.
The same messenger he calls with an imperious nod, and after expostulation, where he hath left his fellows, in his ear, sends him for some new spur-leathers or stockings by this time footed; and when he is gone half the room, recalls him, and sayeth aloud, It is no matter, let the greater bag alone till I come. He picks his teeth when his stomach is empty, and calls for pheasants at a common inn.
His ears were all at once saluted with a noise from the next room, conveyed in distinct bounces against the wainscot; then a hoarse voice exclaimed, "Bring up the artillery let Brutandorf's brigade advance detach my black hussars to ravage the country let them be new booted take particular care of the spur-leathers make a desert of Lusatia bombard the suburbs of Pera go, tell my brother Henry to pass the Elbe at Meissen with forty battalions and fifty squadrons so ho, you Major-General Donder, why don't you finish your second parallel? send hither the engineer Shittenback I'll lay all the shoes in my shop, the breach will be practicable in four-and-twenty hours don't tell me of your works; you and your works be d n'd."
When he turned away and bade Bigot unbuckle his spur-leathers, she stepped forward. "I will do it!" she murmured, acting on a sudden and unaccountable impulse. And as she knelt, she shook her hair about her face to hide its colour. "Nay, Madame, but you will soil your fingers!" he said coldly. "Permit me," she muttered half coherently.
But I must suppress the father's feelings for a while to give myself up to those of the patriot. You know this is the day fixed for our final decision time presses our friends are arriving, and I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ. We have, therefore, little time to prepare to meet them.
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