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But when I crosses a horse I looks for a smart trot and a short stepper, or an easy canter on a bit of turf, and not to be set to hard labor a-sticking my heels into Goliah, nor getting a bloody nose every now and then from Black Bess a-throwing back her uneasy head when I do but lean forward in the saddle. I be an old man, miss, and I looks for peace on horseback if I can't get it nowhere else."
Honeybunch was a good girl, but she was as strong as a six-mule team, and a cautious man just naturally shied away from her. Was a pretty free stepper in the mazes of the dance, and once, when she was balancing partners with Doodums, she kicked out sort of playful to give him a love pat and fetched him a clip with her tootsey that gave him water on the kneepan.
All three were wrestling with chunks of the meat when Tim, facing the door, stopped chewing long enough to mutter: "Dutchland overalls. Here's the goose stepper." The heads of the other two involuntarily moved a little. Then their necks stiffened and they continued eating. Tim alone stared straight at a burly, black-whiskered Teuton who had halted in the outer doorway.
I suppose" he saw that her mind came back like a needle to the pole "it's on account of Jimsy. Wait till you really know him! You will be just the same. Honestly, he's the bravest, gamest person in the world. Once, a couple of years ago, Stepper noticed that he was limping, and he made him go to see the doctor.
She repeated his words to her stepfather as they drove to the station. "Why do you suppose he said that, Stepper?" Stephen Lorimer shrugged. "I don't think he meant anything specific, T. S., but you know the kids have never cared for Carter." "I know; it's that he isn't their type. They haven't understood him." "Or it's that they have." "Stepper! You, too?"
The gates of the river-mouth are the Stepper Point, with its white day-mark, and Pentire Point; the Doom Bar lies well within these, almost blocking the passage, which, with vessels of any draught, must be made on the Stepper side. The name Doom Bar is, of course, provocative of legend, and an appropriate one has been found.
'There and back? he said, and conveyed a compliment to Carinthia's pedestrian vigour in the wary smile which can be recalled for a snub. She replied: 'We have walked the distance, my lord. Her smile was the braced one of an untired stepper. 'A cold wind for you. 'We walked fast. She compelled him to take her in the plural, though he addressed her separately, but her tones had their music.
"Was he dead when you got there, Ellen?" called out Lee. Mrs. Zelotes turned back and looked at him. "It's after midnight, and time for you to be goin' home," she said. Then the three disappeared. Lee grinned sheepishly at Andrew. "Your mother is a stepper of an old woman," said he. "It's awful news," said Andrew, soberly. "Whatever anybody may have felt, nobody expected "
Even now, Stepper, after being here a year, he actually doesn't realize the importance of Jimsy's getting signed up to play. It's a strange thing, with all his cleverness, but he doesn't, and he's always taking Jimsy out on parties and rides and things, and he gets behind in everything. I think I'll just have to speak to him about it." He nodded. "That's a good idea, Top Step. Do that."
Van Meter told Carter that I had cabled for you, so Jimsy knows." "Yes." She stood still, her hat and cloak on, deliberating. "Do the trains go to Mexico every day, Stepper?" "Why, yes, I believe they do, but you needn't wait to write, T. S. You can telegraph, and let " "I didn't mean about writing," said Honor, quietly. "I meant about going. Will you see if I can leave to-day, Stepper?