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Updated: May 29, 2025
A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking as if awakened from some dream of boots, or like an owl surprised in daylight and annoyed at this interruption. And I would say: "How do you do, Mr. Gessler?
Without lighting a candle he went down-stairs, fumbled about, and found his case of instruments. Then he opened the street door and waited, yawning on the stone pavement. In two or three minutes he heard the tripping tip-tap of a donkey's hoofs, and the fisherman came up leading a donkey apparently as disinclined for a nocturnal flitting as the doctor. "Ah, Giuseppe, it's you, is it?"
"But he can't walk, Jinnie. Did he walk?" he demanded. "No." "How'd he go, in a motor car?" "No," repeated the girl. "Some one took him, then?" demanded Bobbie. "Yes." "In a wagon?" By this time she could feel the tip-tap of his anguished heart against hers. "Yes," she admitted, but that was all. She felt that to tell the truth then would be fatal to the throbbing young life in her arms.
And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots.
Inside, the now contracted well of the one little shop was more scented and darker than ever. And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began. At last he stood before me, and, gazing through those rusty iron spectacles, said: "Mr. , isn'd it?" "Ah! Mr. Gessler," I stammered, "but your boots are really too good, you know!
As he spoke he spun half round as upon a peg, the second wooden leg lightly touched the thwart, and the next moment, when it seemed as if the poor fellow's wooden appendages must go through the frail bottom of the boat, they came down with a light tip-tap, and he was standing up looking smilingly in the young navigator's face. "Come along tidy quick, my lad?" he said. "Yes, the wind was lovely.
Their first excursion was right round the hill, down in the trench, and here there was plenty to have taken their attention for a day: there was an ant-hill, swarming with those great black ants found in the woods, whose hill looks one lightly shovelled-up collection of earth: then, close at hand, they heard the regular "tip-tap" of the great green woodpecker; the harsh "pee-pee-peen" of the wryneck; while, from far off, floating upon the soft breeze, came the sweet bell-tones of the cuckoo.
Inside, the now contracted well of the one little shop was more scented and darker than ever. And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began. At last he stood before me, and, gazing through those rusty iron spectacles, said: "Mr. , isn'd it?" "Ah! Mr. Gessler," I stammered, "but your boots are really TOO good, you know!
He thought he waited quietly, squatting down on the mossy grass behind the paling. Something in his hands seemed angry, for his fingers kept tearing up the short turf, and the juice of the severed stems was red like blood. Then in the gathering darkness he heard the tip-tap of footsteps on the highway.
His eyes burnt with a splendid flame; in them there was the light of eternal life. "Well?" said Ronder again, as Foster did not answer his first question. "He's coming," Foster cried, striding about the room, his shabby slippers giving a ghostly tip-tap behind him. "He's coming! Of course I had never doubted it, but I hadn't expected that he would be so eager as he is.
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