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She's so humble and thankful she gets even less than the rest, it looks like, though I suppose in clothes she has the same allowance, and the difference, maybe, is in herself. Some people are born to be stepped on, and of steppers there are always a-plenty. After Sunday-school we walk to the church we're going to, two by two, just alike and all in blue.
That short interview was a little era in Mary's young life. Walter had fixed his eyes on her with delight, had held her hand some seconds, and admired her to her face. She began to wonder a little, and flutter a little, and to put off childhood. Next day, punctual to the minute, Walter drove up to the door in an open carriage drawn by two fast steppers. He found Mr.
He worked like a machine. Gale followed him down the opposite wall, around holes, across gullies, over ridges. Then Gale shifted the glass back to find the others. They were coming also, with exactly the same pace and pause of their leader. What steppers they were! How sure-footed! What leaps they made! It was thrilling to watch them. Gale forgot he had a rifle.
"Oh, Raphael dear, I should like a set of pearl ornaments!" Euphrasia exclaimed. "If he has any gratitude in him, he will give me a couple of carriages with fast steppers," said Aquilina. "Wish for a hundred thousand a year for me!" "Indian shawls!" "Pay my debts!" "Send an apoplexy to my uncle, the old stick!" "Ten thousand a year in the funds, and I'll cry quits with you, Raphael!"
In a short time the great placards of advertisement were torn off the gate piers at "Littlecote," the house was closed, and once more the blinds were down. More than four years had elapsed since Mrs. Shafto and her son had driven away from "Littlecote" behind a pair of smart bay steppers. Mrs.
The steppers were of the 2:30 class, the roads good, and the fair English girl-wife was in ecstacies. They drove past the Jasper farm on the hill, and Sedgwick told Grace that it was his dream for years to accumulate $30,000 to release the mortgage from his father's farm and to buy the Jasper farm. "Then what would I have done?" asked Grace.
I shall wear my cavalry uniform and try to get a pair of the best horses in Chicago for the trip." "Then you would have to get mine. I have a handsome pair of black young horses from Ohio real high steppers. It is to be my party. You will have to take what comes and make the best of it." The day of their journey arrived a warm, bright, cloudless day in September 1841.
Draw up that agreement in regard to the gate receipts, and we'll sign it." Directly after lunch Frank had Toots harness a span of fast steppers, attach them to the double-seated surrey and bring the team round to the front door. Merriwell, Mulloy, and Gallup sprang into the surrey, waving adieus to the jolly party that had gathered on the veranda to see them off.
"I was at first a little shocked at the look of the animals drawn up; they were most miserably thin most of them swelled in the legs few without sore backs and not one eye, on an average, in every three; but still they were all high steppers, and carried a great tail.
"I was at first a little shocked at the look of the animals drawn up; they were most miserably thin most of them swelled in the legs few without sore backs and not one eye, on an average, in every three; but still they were all high steppers, and carried a great tail.
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