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And he at once took down from the shelf Emma's boots, all coated with mud, the mud of the rendezvous, that crumbled into powder beneath his fingers, and that he watched as it gently rose in a ray of sunlight.
"How afraid you are of spoiling them!" said the servant, who wasn't so particular when she cleaned them herself, because as soon as the stuff of the boots was no longer fresh madame handed them over to her.
The outraged lover brandished his naked sword; his guipure ruffle rose with jerks to the movements of his chest, and he walked from right to left with long strides, clanking against the boards the silver-gilt spurs of his soft boots, widening out at the ankles.
Emma kept beating the soles of her boots against the pavement of the yard.
And, in fact, on the following Friday, as Charles was putting on one of his boots in the dark cabinet where his clothes were kept, he felt a piece of paper between the leather and his sock.
"How the devil did it get into my boots?""It must," she replied, "have fallen from the old box of bills that is on the edge of the shelf."
He even strove not to love her; then, when he heard the creaking of her boots, he turned coward, like drunkards at the sight of strong drinks.
At last, he had put on his blouse, taken his hat, fastened his spurs to his boots, and set out at full speed; and the whole of the way old Rouault, panting, was torn by anguish.
To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats.
He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
Coarse wit and the most brutal insensibility to everything that did not promise money, promotion or a Cross; a blind hatred of every argument that went against them seemed to her to be things natural to the male sex, like the wearing of boots and felt hats.
This man will be simply a rascal like M. Maslon'; and Julien congratulated himself on having hidden almost all his money in his boots.
The day after tomorrow, be at my house at midday ...Run along, ruin yourself ...I was forgetting, go and order boots, shirts, a hat at these addresses.'
At six o'clock the Marquis sent for him; he looked with evident dismay at Julien's boots: 'I am to blame.
By dint of a survey of Comte Norbert's person, Julien discovered that he was wearing boots and spurs; 'and I ought to be wearing shoes, evidently as his inferior.'
'From Staub's, clearly,' he said to himself, listening to him in silence, 'that waistcoat is in good taste, the boots are right; but, on the other hand, that black coat in the early morning!
George impressed upon us to take a change of under-things and plenty of socks, in case we got upset and wanted a change; also plenty of handkerchiefs, as they would do to wipe things, and a pair of leather boots as well as our boating shoes, as we should want them if we got upset.
"Ain't you going to put the boots in?" said Harris.
I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me.
The third prod did it: and he turned over on the other side, and said he would be down in a minute, and that he would have his lace-up boots.
He said he didn't look a nice man at all, and he wore ugly boots: so we went on further.
Have you tried that?"Harris replied that we did not want to go there - didn't like the looks of a man who was stopping there - Harris did not like the colour of his hair, didn't like his boots, either.
Myself, carrying three hats and a pair of boots, and trying to look as if I didn't know it.
But as if in gruff reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room.
Gregor was amazed at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely strict with him.
The improvements of the dragoon went no further, excepting that his boots shone with more than holiday splendor, and his spurs glittered in the rays of the sun, as became the pure ore of which they were composed.
God willing, I would at any time give him enough of my hide to make a pair of jack boots, to get out of his hands with the remainder.
"What progress could they make here, in their heavy boots and spurs, and long swords?
A close surtout was buttoned high in the throat of the stranger, and parting at his knees, showed breeches of buff, with military boots and spurs.
He was well dressed in a suit of brown with brass buttons, and he wore high boots which were all roughened and dulled by the sea water.
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