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Six feet in stocking-foot, sound in wind and limb could outrun, outjump, outwrestle, outfight, and outdo anyhow, any lad of my inches in the whole district. There was Tom Foster, that for five long years counted himself cock of the walk, and crowed like a chicken whenever he came out upon the ground. You never saw Tom, I reckon, for he went off to Mississippi after I sowed him up.
Daniel himself was not one to be much beforehand with the world; but to Bell's thrifty imagination the round golden guineas, tied up in the old stocking-foot against rent-day, seemed a mint of money on which Philip might draw infinitely. As yet she did not comprehend the extent of her husband's danger.
Then she drew her bench up still nearer, and, with her hand in the stocking-foot, touched Kranitski's arm, and whispered: "Say no more, Tulek; despair not! Let God up there judge her and you. He is a strict judge, but merciful! I am sorry for you, but also for her, poor thing! What is to be done? The heart is not stone, man is not an angel! Only drive off despair!
Daniel himself was not one to be much beforehand with the world; but to Bell's thrifty imagination the round golden guineas, tied up in the old stocking-foot against rent-day, seemed a mint of money on which Philip might draw infinitely. As yet she did not comprehend the extent of her husband's danger.
When at last, by dint of much saving and scraping together, much hoeing of Indian corn, the old stocking-foot was at last filled, all the little odd bits, poured out and counted up, came to enough to speak to the ship-builder. Oh, the model! how the old man's brain worked over that! Then the timber, each was a chosen piece; oak, apple, cherry, pine, each tree sent a stick.
One protruded from her skirt, and a slipper dangled from the tip. At last it fell off. I knew it would. I picked the vain thing up and balanced it again on her stocking-foot. "Will you do that eight years hence?" said Judith. "My dear, as I've done it eight thousand times the last eight years, I suppose I shall," I replied, laughing. "I'm a creature of habit." "You may marry, Marcus."
"Get the money, and I will say nothing about it, unless I have reason to think that it has been dishonestly come by. Don't look so frightened at me, Nanny. I hope for your sake that her stocking-foot is full of gold." "Surely it's worth risking," Nanny said, not very brightly, "when the minister's on her side." "Ay, but on whose side, Nanny?" asked the doctor.
And his dog a dog that had run the scent of his horse for hundreds of miles, all put together that dog would smell any plain track of the little stocking-foot, only a few hours old, and would wag his tail, and bark, to show that he knew whose track it was; and all the time showing the greatest distress to see Dan in trouble; but it was no use trying to start him on the scent.
As regards shape, this stocking-foot cannot be mentioned in the same breath with the Spider's elegant and faultlessly- rounded balloon. The fabric of mixed cotton and tow is a rustic frieze beside the spinstress' satin; the suspension-straps are clumsy cables compared with her delicate silk fastenings.
But she was like another woman to him when he appeared before her on his way to the polling-booth. 'This is a watery Sabbath to you, I'm thinking, she said sympathetically, but without dropping her wires for Home Rule or no Home Rule that stocking-foot must be turned before twelve o'clock. A watery Sabbath means a doleful day, and 'A watery Sabbath it is, he replied with feeling.
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