Character in Walking.
Quick steps are indicative of energy and agitation. Tiptoe walkiDg symbolises surprise, curiosity, discretion, or mystery. Turned-in toes are often found with preoccupied, absent-minded persons. The miser's walk is represented as stooping and' noiseless, with shirt, nervous, anxious steps. - Slow steps, whether long or short, suggest a gentle or reflective state of mind, as the casa .may be. Where a revengeful purpose is hidden under r feigned smile the step will be slinking and noiseless. The proud step is slow and measured ; the toes are conspicuously turned oufc, the legs straightened. The direction of the steps wavering and following every changing 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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Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 52
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150Character in Walking. Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 52
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