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Updated: May 1, 2025
The seats were broken; and bulkheads, cabin windows, and floor were horribly stained here and there with blood, now quite dry and black, but which, after it had been shed, had been smeared about and trampled over; and this in one place was horribly evident, for close up to the side, quite plain, there was the imprint of a bare foot marked in blood a great wide-toed foot, that could never have worn a shoe.
It seemed to her that whenever they went to dinner Gus in his baggy pepper-and-salt sack suit, his loose, lay-down collar, and his wide-toed shoes, Ma in one of her giddy, gaudy dinner dresses it seemed as if the entire assemblage was stricken dumb and as if every eye was turned upon them in mockery and amusement.
It was the way each of them had of expressing his contempt for the other. As the Colonel negotiated himself around the next corner with the rotary motion of a slightly inebriate straddle-legged old planet, he almost collided with another body which was more nearly spherical and which had apparently no legs at all, only two wide-toed "Old Lady's Comforts" showing beneath the hem of her dress.
They went from house to house, but no one had any use for him. The people only laughed at the broken old figure with the wide-toed boots. "They laugh at me," said Lasse, quite cast down; "perhaps because I still look a bit countrified. But that after all can soon be overcome. "I believe it's because you are so old and yet want to get work," said Marie. "Do you think it can be on that account?
The nurse had grown woefully heavy about the shoulders which put a fearful strain on the stitches of her bodice! and gave her the appearance of a gigantic humming-top! As she swayed a moment on her wide-toed shoes shoes now utterly lacking buttons the King's English again struck out, caught her, this time, around the neck, and sent her spinning through the Gate!
They went from house to house, but no one had any use for him. The people only laughed at the broken old figure with the wide-toed boots. "They laugh at me," said Lasse, quite cast down; "perhaps because I still look a bit countrified. But that after all can soon be overcome. "I believe it's because you are so old and yet want to get work," said Marie. "Do you think it can be on that account?
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