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Without undressing she blew out the candle and curled herself upon the mattress on the floor. At 10:30 o'clock old man Ballinger came out of his house in his stocking feet and leaned over the gate, smoking his pipe. He looked down the big road, white in the moonshine, and rubbed one ankle with the toe of his other foot. It was time for the Fredericksburg mail to come pattering up the road.
"Why?" "Oh, I don't know," he said, and then he got up and gave the bag a kick which, landing on a bat, hurt his toe. "You're the best fellow in the world, Godfrey, but you don't understand." "There is something odd the matter with you, or you wouldn't say that. We don't say things like that to each other." "Won't you come down to Cornwall?" "No, I won't." "Is Ward going to stay with you?"
Instead of picking up the potato and carrying it, Tommy propelled it along with the toe of her boot. She did not propose to burn her fingers again. The guardian gouged out a hole to the bottom, filling the hole with butter, Tommy's eyes growing larger and larger. Then she began to eat the potato with great relish, after having seasoned it with salt and pepper.
Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life. Every phenomenon has a natural cause. Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's. Experienced hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy. I knelt once before today. Ah! Even their wax model Raymonde I visited daily to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb toe, as worn in Paris.
"We have a big hole amidships; we are going down," he said, quietly and impressively. Soon after the nature of the accident had become known on the steamer, a little lady appeared on deck. She had come from one of the first-class cabins with certain and determined step. She was dressed from top to toe, and her bonnet strings were tied in a natty bowknot.
Don't ask what it cost! I tore up the bill and threw it in the fire. Really, don't you know, it made me quite depressed! So perishable, too! I expect I shall be in rags before the evening is over. But it's quite sweet at present all frilly-willys from top to toe. I do love to be fluffy and feminine, and my pearls really are unique!
"Worth it, do you think?" asked one of them. "Enormously so. But it's a bit of a pull going back to that beastliness. After one knows the meaning of it." "It's because I know that I want to go back," said another man who had sat very quietly looking at the toe of one of his riding-boots.
He secured a good balance on his left foot and cautiously lowered the other. Inch by inch he groped down keeping his arms as far outstretched as possible. Finally his toe touched something solid. He ventured an inch farther at the risk of losing his balance. He found a more secure footing and, taking a chance, rested his full weight. The base was firm and he drew down the other foot.
Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. So the boy eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection. But now he did not know the necessary symptoms.
"The palms of your hands, lad, are they raw? Is the lye of the suds cool to them?" Another black glance came in reply and McTee leaned back against the rail, tapping one contented toe against the floor. "It was a fine tale you told me yesterday, Harrigan," he said at length, "but afterward I saw Kate, and she was never kinder. I spoke of you, and we laughed together about it.
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