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'D'you remember that nigger you gouged in the square? Pity you didn't keep the odd eye. It would have been useful. Any letters for me? Give me all the ones in fat gray envelopes with a sort of crown thing outside. They're of no importance. Torpenhow gave him a letter with a black M. on the envelope flap. Dick put it into his pocket.
Some odd shrill sounds, uttered in the voice of a Pulcinello, attracted the notice of them all; and lo! high in the air, behind a lofty chestnut tree, the figure of a Pulcinello did appear, hopping and vaulting in the unsubstantial air.
"I want to inquire if you have any acquaintance with the large grocery house of Kidder & Ladd, in the City?" he asked. "A slight business acquaintance," replied Anderson, wonderingly. "I saw," said Carroll, in an odd, breathless sort of voice, "an advertisement for a floor-walker in that house.
He seems to have an odd distrust of people, especially of women. It may be that he is fretful in his blindness, which is in itself so trying to a strong man. But besides, the treatment is not calculated to have a very buoyant effect. It is apt to make a man fretful to lie in the dark, and know that he has to do so for indefinite weeks.
No one heard the rustle of Lady Florimel's dress as she sped up the stair, thinking with herself how very odd it was to have a secret with a fisherman; for a secret it was, seeing the reticence of Malcolm had been a relief to her; when she shrunk from what seemed the imminent mention of her name in the affair before the servants.
He looked at her in a puzzled way and, striking a match, lit a cigarette without her permission. "Odd you should ask that," he remarked. "I do feel sort of queer to-night as though I'd been ill, or something of the sort. There are so many things I can only half remember at least I remember the things themselves, but the part I took in them seems so odd.
They heard the noises plain enough, and used to be not a little frightened, for they were aware both of the strength and perseverance of their enemies. But what seemed rather odd to some of these servants, the lord used to tell them, that while they continued to be afraid they would be safe; and it passed into a sort of proverb in that family, "Happy is he that feareth always."
Then, too, I'm a little odd, I guess. I can get more fun out of one happy, human soul than out of all the dogs an' horses in creation. "'But children! Why, they're so subject to sickness and accident and death, said Mrs. Bill. "'An' they're subject, also, to health an' life an' safety, I answered. "'Yes, but you know they'll be getting into all kinds of trouble. They'll worry you.
We heared tell as he'd sold his own land to come and take the Warrens, and that seemed odd for a man as had land of his own, to come and rent a farm in a strange place.
More than once in the Diary occur such entries as: "My thirty lines done; but not well, I fear." "Thirty lines to-day, but not yesterday must work up." At odd times and in odd places were these verses sometimes composed. On a certain Sunday morning in July 1817, after going to church at St. I am not quite in good humour with this day; but, happily, I cannot say why."
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