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Updated: May 13, 2025
Intense gravity marked the features of the groom, who stood, hat in hand, tapping the side of his top-boot with a silver-mounted riding-whip. Haco smiled grimly: "Ye was to wait an answer, was ye?" "If I may venture to make so bowld as to say so in the presence of your highness, I was." "Then wait," said Haco, smiling a little less grimly.
His top-boot sank quickly through the yielding crust, and the black subsoil rose with oily, sucking action, 'and his foot was immediately buried out of sight. He drew it out sharply, a shudder of horror quickening his action. Strong man and hardy as he was, the muskeg inspired him with a superstitious terror. "Guess there ain't no following them beasties through that, sergeant.
From the 1st of June to the middle of July, they are in the very height of their impertinence; and, although they have not sufficient strength in their proboscis to penetrate a top-boot, yet they easily pierce through a summer coat and shirt, and a wee bit into the skin beneath.
But even this was not all. The tall postilion produced from his right-hand top-boot, a damp copy of that afternoon’s number of the county paper; and there, in large type, running the whole length of the very first column, was a long address from Nicholas Tulrumble to the inhabitants of Mudfog, in which he said that he cheerfully complied with their requisition, and, in short, as if to prevent any mistake about the matter, told them over again what a grand fellow he meant to be, in very much the same terms as those in which he had already told them all about the matter in his letter.
He took up first my top-boot, and then the shooting- boot in looking at which he gazed with wonder at the nails; and then he glanced at my feet, measuring them with his eye; and after this he pronounced his opinion. "Yer honer couldn't wear a morsel of leather belonging to ere a one of 'em, young or ould. There niver was a foot like that yet among the O'Conors."
Care was for the daylight, when the secrets of their bank roll would be revealed, and the draft on the exchequer of health would have to be met. There was displayed no element of the soil from which these people drew their wealth, except for the talk. They had long since risen from the moleskin and top-boot stage in Leaping Horse.
Stiggins through the bar, and through the passage, out at the front door, and so into the street the kicking continuing the whole way, and increasing in vehemence, rather than diminishing, every time the top-boot was lifted. It was a beautiful and exhilarating sight to see the red-nosed man writhing in Mr.
He wore a quiet uniform tunic almost hidden by black braiding, a pith helmet which had seen brighter days and likewise fouler, and the leg that he threw over his horse's head was cased in riding trousers and a neat little top-boot of brown leather. He slipped from the saddle with a litheness which contrasted strangely with his closely cropped grey hair and white moustache and Imperial.
Jones prudently set thereon the broad sole of his top-boot, and the maidservant brushed the tinder into the grate. "Ah, trample it out: hurry it amongst the ashes. The last as the rest," said Caleb, hoarsely. "Friendship, fortune, hope, love, life a little flame, and then and then " "Don't be uneasy it's quite out!" said Mr. Jones. Caleb turned his face to the wall.
And then into the trenches at Neuve Chapelle. If Santa Claus had come that way, remembering those grown-up boys of ours, the old man with his white beard must have lifted his red gown high waist-high when he waded up some of the communication trenches to the firing-lines, and he would have staggered and slithered, now with one top-boot deep in sludge, now with the other slipping off the trench boards into five feet of water, as I had to do, grasping with futile hands at slimy sandbags to save a headlong plunge into icy water.
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