CHARACTER IN WALKING.
Steps that are quick are indicative of energy and agitation. Tip-toe walking symbolises surprise, curiosity, discretion, or mystery. Turned-in toes are often with pre-oceiipied, absent-minded persons. The miser's walk is represented aa stooping, noiseless, with short, nervous anxious steps.
Slow steps, whether long or short, suggest a gentle or reflective state of ttiind, as the case may be.
The proud step is slow and measured; the toes are conspicuously turned out; the legs straightened.
Where a vengeful purpose is hidden under a feigned smile the step will be slinking and noiseless.
The direction -of the steps wavering ,and following every changeful impulse of the mind inevitably betrays uncertainty, hesitation, and indecision.
Obstinate people, who in argument rely more on muscularity than on intellectual power, rest the feet flatly and firmly on the ground, walk heavily and slowly, and stand with the legs firmly planted and far apart.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 99, 27 April 1903, Page 2
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