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While he fished about in the grub-box for dishes and eating utensils, she stretched a spare bit of rope between the tent-poles and hung the skirt on it to dry. The dishes were dirty, and, as he bent over and washed them, she turned her back and deftly changed her stockings. Her childhood had taught her the value of well-cared feet for the trail.
Between five and six in the afternoon they reached the count's castle, which lay outside the village in the midst of rich tobacco and rapeseed fields, and enclosed on three sides by a splendid English garden; the place was arranged with taste and evidently well-cared for. That the count expected the arrival of the Hátszegis was evident from the fact that dinner was awaiting them.
Ward meditated and drummed on the surface of his desk. Dave noticed they were large, powerful hands, withal well-cared for despite their dark sunburn. Also, he noted what had already caught his eye before a tiny strip of flesh-colored courtplaster on the forehead over one eye. And still the thought that forced itself into his mind was unbelievable. Mr.
"Why, then, your world shall be mine." "Yes, but for how long?" she demanded feverishly. "I wonder how long you could endure this world of mine? I have had to work and slave all my life, but you look at your hands, so white and well-cared for yours are not the hands of a worker!" "No, I'm afraid they're not!" he admitted a little ruefully.
"She wants to copy the inscription on that old basket-hilted sabre," said Clovis, pointing to a venerable weapon hanging on the wall. "I wish you'd take it to her; my hands are all over oil. Take it without the sheath, it will be less trouble." The butler drew the blade, still keen and bright in its well-cared for old age, and carried it into the morning-room.
Vesta belonged to 'Lena Mr. Livingstone had given orders to have it well-cared for and worse than all the rest, 'Lena was to accompany Durward to Frankfort. Something must be done to meet the emergency, but what, Mrs. Livingstone didn't exactly know, and finally concluded to wait until she saw Mrs. Graham.
"Once more, the earth does not contain any peasantry so well off, so well-cared for, so happy, so sleek and contented, as the sons and daughters of the emancipated slaves in the English West Indian Islands." Again:
"It may be so," said the Pasha, with a sigh. "Meanwhile, to return to our point, you will find everything ready for your journey at an early hour to-morrow." "But what of little Ivanka Petroff?" I asked. "She must go with us." The Pasha seemed a little perplexed. "I had not thought of that," he said; "she will be well-cared for here." "I cannot go without her," said I firmly.
We went as we had come, by water, for we wouldn't condescend to the railway; and at the landing-place for Mestre our grey automobile stood waiting for us, so well-cared for and polished that it might just have come from the makers, instead of having charged at full tilt "up the airy mountains and down the rushy glens" of half Europe.
Large buildings and small hovels, well-cared for gardens and filthy back yards, imposing factories and dilapidated shops there was surely work here for an energetic reformer. But Kathleen knew the strength of vested rights, the strength of contented indolence; above all, the bitter tongue of scandal that was ever ready to destroy a prophet.
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