Yes, she married Manton, but I don't know about his liberality; I'm not sure but he cut her throat because he discovered that she lacked that excellent thing in woman, the middle
toe of the right foot."
And Michael, back in the box and raging, was one
toe short of the number which he had brought into the world.
He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the
toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound.
In turn, at night on deck, wriggling her
toes at him under a rug to simulate some strange and crawling creature of an invader, he would dare to simulate his own befoolment and quite disrupt Villa's bed with his frantic ferocious attack on the thing that he knew was only her
toes.
They cut off three of his
toes, but the others recovered so that he was still able to work and went on living for another twenty years, first as a farm-labourer, then in his old age as a watchman.
There are men, too--wretched busybodies--who walk about merely to see if they can find some wretched tchinovnik or broken-down official who has got
toes projecting from his boots or his hair uncut!
They had to climb this, so the guide in the lead cut steps in the ice with his hatchet, and as fast as he took his
toes out of one of these slight holes, the
toes of the man behind him occupied it.
So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her
toes when they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly and sadly:--
yet there are upland geese with webbed feet which rarely or never go near the water; and no one except Audubon has seen the frigate-bird, which has all its four
toes webbed, alight on the surface of the sea.
Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown
toes.
Its hands were black, too, and its
toes curled down, like a bird's.
The spot was at Chesea, for there Miss Sophia Wackles resided with her widowed mother and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions; a circumstance which was made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor windows, whereupon appeared in circumbmbient flourishes the words 'Ladies' Seminary'; and which was further published and proclaimed at intervals between the hours of half-past nine and ten in the morning, by a straggling and solitrary young lady of tender years standing on the scraper on the tips of her
toes and making futile attempts to reach the knocker with spelling-book.