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She gave her a small, tissue wrapped parcel for her son and came out on to the steps again with her. "Be careful about crossing, Honor!" "Yes," said Honor, lightly. "That would hardly do, to come alone from Italy and then get myself run over on my own street. What's that Kipling thing Stepper quotes: To sail unscathed from a heathen land And be robbed on a Christian coast! Well, good-night, Mrs.
" Did you see that women who went by just now?" he said to Carrie on the first day they took a walk together. " Fine stepper, wasn't she?" Carrie looked, and observed the grace commended. " Yes, she is" she returned, cheerfully, a little suggestion of possible defect in herself awakening in her mind. If that was so fine, she must look at it more closely.
"See that old sorrel shake himself!" yelled the loafers. The doctor came tearing down with a spirited bay, a magnificent stepper. As he drew along so that Bert could catch a glimpse of the mare's neck, he thrilled with delight. There was the thoroughbred's lacing of veins; the proud fling of her knees and the swell of her neck showed that she was far from doing her best.
I want her t' learn somethin' more scientific. 'Now you're talkin', said Uncle Eb. 'There's lots o' things ye can't learn by cipherin'. Nuthin's too good fer Hope. 'I'd like t' know what you men expect of her anyway, said Elizabeth Brower. 'A high stepper, said Uncle Eb. 'We want a slick coat, a kind uv a toppy head, an a lot O' ginger.
She ran lightly because she felt suddenly eased of a crushing burden; Stepper, good old Stepper, was on guard; Stepper was standing watch for her. There was a little writing-room and sun parlor on the second floor, dim now, with only one shaded light still burning, and as she crossed it a figure rose so startlingly from a deep chair that she smothered a small cry. "It's I," said Carter.
Feyther an' mither may a' gey mad, But whistle an' I'll come to ye, my lad! Her mother, her poor, lovely mother, to whom she had been always such a disappointment, would be mad enough in all conscience, but Stepper would stand by. And nothing no thing, no person, mattered beside Jimsy.
Many a time had he tramped over that road while going out to his favorite fishing hole; but never did it seem one half so short as when he dashed along behind that high stepper.
Just think in another day perhaps in another hour, this will all be over, like a nightmare, and we'll be back to regular living again. And won't we be glad that we all stood it so decently?" It was a stiff, small smile with her cracked lips but a stout one. "You know, I'm pretty proud of all of us! And won't Stepper be proud of us? And your dad, Jimsy, and your mother, Cartie!"
Then she turned to look at her stepfather and he followed her into his study. "And we've got three new dogs, Honor, and two cats, and " the smallest Lorimer besieged her at the door but she did not turn. She was very white now and trembling. "Stepper, where is Jimsy?" "Top Step, I it's like Evangeline, rather, isn't it? He went straight through from the north without even stopping over here.
If he walked out to Stepper Point, or strode some miles westward to Trevose Head, the first land sighted in old days by Canadian timber vessels trading to Padstow, the majestic sweep of coast, the jagged headlands and scattered rocks would certainly suggest Cornwall; but the estuary of the Camel from Wadebridge to Padstow, although beautiful, has no claim to the epithet wild.
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