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His waistcoat of a morning was pale buff of an evening, embroidered velvet; wherewith were connected sundry schemes of an "association for the improvement of native manufactures." His trousers, matutinally, were of the color vulgarly called "blotting-paper;" and he never wore boots, which, he said, unfitted a man for exercise, but short drab gaiters and square-toed shoes.
Bill's sharp eyes reached his face with a jump. "Wot in the name o' blazes " he cried. But Scipio did not let him continue. "I knew ther' wa'n't no gold showin' on my claim," he hurriedly explained. "So I'll jest hand you back your dollars." "Square-toed mackinaw!" the gambler cried, his face scarlet. Then he broke out into one of his harsh laughs.
"Bah!" sneered Goliday, but a strange look crossed his dark eyes. His legs were trembling a little, either from excitement or nervousness. "Yo're loco," he added. "My men are in town or I'd have yuh rode off of my place on a rail!" "Goliday," snapped Kid Wolf crisply, "the man who shot Thomas down, wore low-heeled, square-toed boots."
They were a curious party, indeed: the straight, dark girl with the light in her eyes and the color in her cheeks; the quaint, rugged figure of the elderly man in his swallow-tail and brass buttons and square-toed, country boots; and the old soldier hobbling along with the aid of his green umbrella, clad in the blue he had loved and suffered for.
At the wrists and neck of her brown-silk waist were spotless bands of white; and on her head was a dashing little brown hat with green wings. She exhibited square-toed little brown boots as an evidence of exceeding common sense; and was pulling on a pair of absurdly small boy's gloves. This most suitable costume for the North was completed by a brown-silk parasol.
Then, even if they failed to secure him and the big stone, they would know the spot where he had discovered the ruby-mine." "Say, Mr. Buxton, you've hit the bull's eye," remarked Buck. "That's about the square-toed truth." "And that's why they threw the letter away when they had read it," cried Jack. "There was no hint of any such thing in it."
It was not to be denied; they were not his ordinary boots, nor did he ever wear such trousers as he saw above them! Always a careful and punctiliously neat person, he was more than commonly exacting concerning the make and polish of his boots and the set of his trousers. These boots were clumsy, square-toed, and thick-soled; one was even patched on the side.
She tried to speak kindly, for the sage-green dress was as little to her taste as the impossible magenta. Under the two dresses were ribbons of different shades and hues, some strong, coarse stockings, some square-toed shoes, and finally, below everything else, an evening-dress made of voile, and deep blue in tone. "Some of the things will he very useful," said Miss Johnson.
Delicate, coral-like tendrils of the Virginian creeper, which covers the house walls, and strays over the bay windows of the Long Gallery below, twine themselves yearly about his ankles and his square-toed shoes.
Indeed, as he stood there in his plain blue coat with its high roll collar and shining silver buttons, his spotless moleskins and heavy, square-toed riding boots, he was as fair a type as might be of the English country gentleman.
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