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He must go, leave the house unguarded, find a cab, and return return after an absence? Had he courage for that? And just then he spied a stain about a hand's-breadth on his trouser-leg, and reached his finger down to touch it. The finger was stained red: it was blood; he stared upon it with disgust, and awe, and terror, and in the sharpness of the new sensation, fell instantly to act.
The man's hand caught it, and his right hand shot forward and buried itself in the thick, soft mass of her hair. It was then that something broke loose in Peter. For this day, this hour, this minute the gods of destiny had given him birth. All things in the world were blotted out for him except one the six inches of naked shank between the bootlegger's trouser-leg and his shoe. He dove in.
He had thrown himself on his bed half-dressed; a sock and a trouser-leg were sticking out from under the feather bed which he had drawn around him. A feeling of intense disappointment took possession of her for a moment. But then a look of contempt crossed her face; he was snoring, he would not notice anything.
'Because Mullins is there waitin' for the victim, said Stalky delicately, and they all laughed. 'You ought to have shaken that mouse out of your trouser-leg, Pater. That's the way I did in my youth. Pater's revertin' to his second childhood. Never mind, Pater, we all respect you and your future caree-ah. Winton, still writhing, growled. Vernon leaning on the desk somehow shook it again.
His full beard had evidently not been trimmed for weeks, and he had one trouser-leg turned up. He had no alpenstock, and that also was a merit. So I said to myself, "Here is a man free from the conventionalities of society. If I become acquainted with anybody it will be with him." I found Johnson was an American from a Western city named Chicago, which I had heard of, and we "palled on."
Le medecin major la regarde. Il dit de suite 'Bon. C'est tout. Elle sort. Une autre entre. La meme chose. 'Bon. C'est fini'.... M'sieu' Jean: prenez garde!" And he struck a match fiercely on the black, almost square boot which lived on the end of his little worn trouser-leg, bending his small body forward as he did so, and bringing the flame upward in a violent curve.
He half-turned, as if to die fighting, then changed his mind, darted to the feet of the young schoolmaster, ran up his trouser-leg, and confidently took refuge under his coat. "Shake him off! Shake him off! A 'coon's bite is pizen!" shouted the farmer, in great excitement. "Not much!" said the young schoolmaster, with decision, gathering his coat snugly around his panting guest.
He looked pleadingly at his little mistress across the swagman's trouser-leg. Norah struck her saddle sharply with her whip. "Here, sir! drop it!" Puck dropped it reluctantly, and came across to Bobs, his head hanging. The swagman sat down on the ground and nursed his leg. "That served you right," Norah said, with judicial severity. "You hadn't any business to grab my watch.
"Always there are coming more into it," said Furst, in his blunt, broken English. A pause ensued. Dove flicked dust off his trouser-leg; and the American men present were suddenly fascinated by the bottoms of their cups. Ephie was the first to regain her composure. "Now let us talk of something pleasant, something quite different from dying."
It was through some sympathy of this kind that I first gained Johnnyboy's good graces. I had been presented with a small pocket case of homoeopathic medicines, and one day on the beach I took out one of the tiny phials and, dropping two or three of the still tinier pellets in my hand, swallowed them. To my embarrassment, a small hand presently grasped my trouser-leg.
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