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A pen in her hands became a thing one caressed paper with, and she might have been stroking and tickling a kitten as she wrote: Picture us, my dear, afloat in the very oddest ship you can imagine. It's not the ship, so much as the people. One does come across queer sorts as one travels. I must say I find it hugely amusing.

How few modern rooms, for instance, have such niches in them, such seats in windows and snug corners, that of all things make a house comfortable. Some of these rooms are twenty feet high, and are lighted from windows in surprising places, and of the oddest shapes.

Oddest of all is the plan followed by the common burdock.

She'll bow to me to-night, because she sees me with your good aunt; there, I told you so! Since she and Sir Guy are living together again she sets up for being respectable such stories, my dear! but I don't believe half of 'em. However, I've seen her with my own eyes do the oddest things at best, I'm afraid she's a shocking flirt! There's your cousin, Mr. Jones you see I know everybody.

'How singular, then, that he should have fixed on such a métier; but, I suppose, like other young men, his friends fixed for him? 'Not at all. No step could be less pleasing to my father than his leaving England; but Arundel is quite unmanageable, even by papa. He is the oddest but the dearest person in the world! 'He is very clever, is he not? 'I think so.

And we who looked at it were still silent, not now as if we had quarrelled, but as if this beauty had made peace between us. Viola's face had changed. It reminded me in the oddest way of her brother Reggie's.

It was a great comfort to be so perfectly miserable and yet not suffer any. I used to look in the glass and gloat over the amount and variety of mournful expression I could throw into my features. If I caught myself smiling at anything, I cut the smile short with a sigh. The oddest thing about all this is, I never once suspected that I was not unhappy.

Gathergold was dead and buried; and the oddest part of the matter was, that his wealth, which was the body and spirit of his existence, had disappeared before his death, leaving nothing of him but a living skeleton, covered over with a wrinkled yellow skin.

Thus I laid the flattering unction to my soul, little dreaming that I and mine should share in the strange adventures of this oddest of all odd creatures. It might be made a subject of curious inquiry to those who delight in human absurdities, if ever there were a character drawn in works of fiction so extravagantly ridiculous as some which daily experience presents to our view.

Then he turned round on the music- stool with the oddest smile I ever saw, and said, "Do you know that air, Mrs. O'Reilly?" "Yes," I said; "but I forget now what it is." "It was composed by Pestal, one of the victims of Russian tyranny," said he. "The executioner did his work badly, and Pestal had to be strung up twice.