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...acted by George Higginson '27 ambassador and lieutenant of King Philipe of Spain, who don't mean right by our Nell! Ramon, scorned and repulsed, carries out to the best of his ability the commands of his King, as well he should do, and with cautious footstep and deep breathing he attempts to--but you'll have to see that for yourself...
...favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey. A thin figure with splayed hands and a broken nose, he moves about the halls of his master's California house with the short, wary footstep that one learns in the ring. He and Dempsey teamed together in the days when trainmen booted them off freights. Those days are long ago for Dempsey; his critics declare that he has softened; it is true. How could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those...
Lady Oddboy was sitting by an exquisite little writing-desk, when Robert entered. She heard his footstep, and started up nervously to find his keen dark eyes fixed on her face. She shrieked, and hid her blue eyes in her trembling hands; but the wicked gleam in them did not escape his notice. He came rapidly forward and seized...
...hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings must by daylight. I was almost recovered from the effects of the night, when I heard a light footstep, and then a pleasant voice...
...where, perchance, her springy footstep fell...