I had some conversation with a remarkably tall, military-looking man, who moved about awkwardly as if he was learning to walk upon stilts, or was lame in both legs, which I afterwards found to be the case.
The season was not inviting; nevertheless, one sunny day, accompanied by my lamefriend of pugnacious reputation, I visited the garden, and rejoiced at finding myself once more in he open air.
But, thus prepared for an unpleasant greeting from, the unfortunate and much to be pitied Mercy, Ruth smiled happily herself and waved her hand at the lame girl's window.
She refused to admit that she took the lamegirl seriously in her ugly moods.
The mother and father ignored all this ill-nature on the part of the lame girl and were as kind and friendly with their visitor as they had been on the previous evening.
Ye can call on that leetle lame gal ye was tellin' us about while Jabez does his errands.
That made Ruth smile a little, and she told Helen what Mercy Curtis called the owner of the Red Mill, and of the fancy the lame girl had taken for Uncle Jabez.
But Ruth could see the outline of the lame girl's figure at one of the windows and she saw a lean fist shaken in the air at the two children going by.
She put out her hand to take the lame girl's, but Mercy struck it smartly with her own, then whirled her chair around and returned to her former position by the window.
She knew the girl from the Red Mill, although she had seen her so many weeks before; but Ruth ran into the yard and up the porch steps at the side of the house, and knocked at the door before the lame girl recovered from her amazement.
I don't see how I could have overlooked it, but I never gave it a thought, till this morning I found myself so lame I could hardly get out of bed.
Yes ma'am, and I feel he has saved me from a lame arm--those pine knots are so heavy.
Like one blind and lame Who by some new sense has vision And strikes deadlier than the strongest Went this water.
On his way home Sammy met Roy Tyler, and told him (as a secret) that thelame lady at the minister's house kept worms, and would pay two cents a head for tobacco worms.
Well, there was nothing to be done but to give up our drive; for we couldn't bear to ride after a lame horse!
The sun shone over the low eastern wall upon the fountain and upon Felipe perched upon the rim of the basin, with his lame leg stuck out straight and his mouth working as he fastened a nail in the end of his beggar's crutch.
How are you going to keep pace with the hunters with that lame foot?
But to take the lame boy with him was out of the question.
Now for the best of the breakfast for the lame and tame," laughed Batiste, pulling up Wilfred, and looking at his disfiguring bruises with a whistle.
Sick and lame as I was, I would have started with Toby at once, had not Kory-Kory not only refused to carry me, but manifested the most invincible repugnance to our leaving the neighbourhood of the house.
She limped, not as lame people generally do, but like a ship at anchor.
The farm hands came up also and joined their master in cuffing the lame beggar.
He had not heard of Joe's lame arm, and he reasoned that his partner was holding back for reasons best known to himself.
Go back to your rocking-chair and rest your dear, old lame foot on your softest cushion, and see how soon I will have everything done.
As Peterkin talked, he was carrying his daughter into the hall, hitting her lame foot against the door, and eliciting from her a cry of pain.
Tom had hastened in order to assist her, for she was still a little lame and limped as she walked.
Her brother, who died young, made it because he was lame of one leg; which meant that enforced inactivity had found a sedentary employment in mechanisms, not that all lame folk make mills.
Diseased eyes have been doctored up for the occasion; lame persons have been trained to avoid the fatal limp during that walk between the two surgeons.
He is misconducting himself in the most disgraceful way with that lame Italian woman.
Come, confess; on second thoughts you would not sacrifice such things for the smiles of a lame lady?
The route was short, and the long, straggling line marched slowly; it could go no faster than the lame men could walk.
Last of all they kept sober company with two or three lame persons and a cheerful delayed little group of new doffers, the children who minded bobbins in the weave-room and who were young enough to be tired and even timid.
I often wish that I could, though surely not in this way," said the lame woman from her seat by the window, as the doctor rose to go away.
Marie was too lame to spring aside or to dash upon the man across intervening obstacles and defend himself.
They killed Deacon Skinner's old horse in Parker, and Tim Shandy's lame cow, and were coming to finish Jocko when he died of his own self.
The lame girl joined in with her rich, sweet tones, and they sang it through to the end.
There were no relatives on this side of the water to claim the homeless lad, and those in old Italy were too poor to be burdened with his keep; so the Society gladly listened to the lame girl's plea, and gave Giuseppe into her keeping.
Under her favorite oak by the lilac hedge lay the lame girl in her prison-chair, looking whiter and frailer than ever before, and Peace stopped in the midst of a rapturous kiss to ask fearfully, "Have you been sick again?
That is a good idea, Peace," said the lamegirl happily.
The lame girl held out her thin, blue-veined hands, and little, homeless Fern ran to her with a desolate cry.
For a long moment the lame girl lay in deep thought, still holding Fern's chubby hand in hers, though she had evidently forgotten all about the little stranger children in her concern for the friendless orphan, Lottie.
Tell me about it," said the lame girl gently, stroking the damp curls on the round, brown head in her lap.
