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"Bow-legs, too why not? Just as easy bow-legs as biles." "Well, go on." "All such things, she says, is appearances. Our souls being sick, they look through our eyes in a sorter cock-eyed way and see something they call a bile or a pair of bow-legs. The bile and the bow-legs aint really there, you know; we only think so, which is just as bad as if they was there.
"Did you ever notice Ben Butler's eyes, Bud?" asked the old man, knowingly. "Blind," said Bud sadly, shaking his head "too bad too bad great great hoss!" "Yes, but the leds, Bud that hoss, Ben Butler there, holds a world's record he's the only cock-eyed hoss in the world." "You don't say so that critter! cock-eyed?" Bud laughed and slapped his leg gleefully. "Didn't I always tell you so?
So much so that our explanation of space and time, the one that was "real" and "true" and had superseded every other theory since the beginning of history, would itself be superseded by something new that was more "real" and "true" than its predecessors. Be hell on all those science-fiction programs, having to reinvent how those cock-eyed transporters worked.
Nor was she long away, or noisy in her mission, scarcely a minute having elapsed before the three came trooping down to the water-side, their hands laden with camp utensils, De Noyan wide awake enough, and filled with intense interest in my adventures, but the Puritan yet cock-eyed from sleep, stumbling as he walked like a man in a dream.
"All right my man, that'll do," interposed my father, who from his service-training had a rooted objection to anything approaching to familiarity from servants and other subordinates, besides which he particularly disliked the waiter's "vulgar curiosity" as he styled it, saying he was always prying and poking his nose into other people's affairs; although, I honestly believe my worthy old cock-eyed friend only took a laudable interest in my welfare, as indeed he did in the business of everybody who patronised the hotel.
"'How's that, fellers? says Ag to me and White. We said we was agreeable. "'All right, in you come! says Aggy. 'There ain't no hog about our firm but as for you, says he, walking on his tip-toes up to the driver, 'as for you, you cock-eyed whelp, around you go! Around you go! he hollers, jamming the end of Moral Suasion into the driver's trap. 'Oh, and WON'T you go 'round, though! says he.
.... The dance-house at the corner of Moll Duncan Street and Fish-trap Avenue has been broken up. Our friend, the editor of the Jamboree, succeeded in getting his cock-eyed sister in there as a beer-slinger, and the hurdy-gurdy girls all swore they would not stand her society; and they got up and got.
While he was speaking to this effect, the "cock-eyed rascal," as Dad called him, came in with our breakfast, giving me a sly wink with his sound eye behind Dad's back as he passed him; so, sitting down, we hurried through the meal without any further conversation, I feeling more and more nervous the nearer the hour fixed for the examination approached, and mother and Dad both keeping silent, in sympathy with me.
At any rate, old Russell's bound to get hold of all this and keep it for himself, and I'm resolved that he shall disgorge. He's got half a dozen plans. One plan is to try to get her to marry his son, an infernal redheaded, cock-eyed cad of a fellow a tailor too. Another plan is to put her off in some out-of-the-way place here in Spain, where no one will ever hear of her.
"Rare sport they'll have! I wouldn't be in Mr. Toley's shoes for something. What's a cock-eyed man want with a gun in his hand, eh, mateys?" Desmond felt somewhat out of his element in his present company; but having reasons of his own for making himself pleasant, he said, by way of opening a conversation: "You seem pleased at the idea of going to sea again, Mr. Bulger."
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