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Furlong opened his eyes wider than ever, and thought this the queerest bit of madness he ever heard of; however, thinking it best to humour her, he answered, "Yes, it was a little awkwa'dness of mine I upset the inkstand the othe' day." "Do you mock me, sir?" said she, with increasing bitterness. "La, no! Mistwess O'Gwady."
"But, my dear fellow, you are joking then," said I; "this is a very passable skull indeed, I may say that it is a very excellent skull, according to the vulgar notions about such specimens of physiology and your scarabaeus must be the queerest scarabaeus in the world if it resembles it. Why, we may get up a very thrilling bit of superstition upon this hint.
Everything new to him was 'a guy, or 'so rum, or 'the queerest go you ever. One of the two declared that, 'in all his experience and in all his life he had never heard sich a lingo as French; and further, that 'one of their light porters at Bucklersbury would eat half a dozen of them Frenchmen for a bender.
"If you aren't the queerest girl! What is 'unsettled'?" "Well, for one thing," she said, able to smile at his vehemence, "you haven't settled on anything to do. At least, if you have you've never spoken of it." As she spoke, she gave him the quickest possible side glance of hopeful scrutiny; then looked away, not happily.
This regulation has resulted in the queerest of embarrassments. A great number of these old peasants and young ones too never had a photograph taken. There is no photographer. The photographer at Esbly and the two at Meaux could not possibly get the people all photographed, and, in this uncertain weather, the prints made, in the delay allowed by the military authorities.
'And you've been crazy, too, as a loon, he continued, 'and talked the queerest things about state prison, and hard boards, and bread and water, and accessories, and substitutes, and so on. Seemed as if you thought you were a felon, and a body would have supposed that you had either taken the diamonds yourself or else knew who did, the way you went on by spells.
For just at the moment of our transition I had the queerest sense not only of having passed at some previous time through a precisely similar experience, but, also, of taking part in a ridiculous dream.
"Girls, have you any idea what it was?" she asked. "The the " began Amy. "Oh, I can't say it!" she wailed from beneath the covers. "Don't be silly!" commanded Betty, sharply. "If you mean ghost say so," but she herself hesitated over the word. "If that was the ghost it was the queerest one I ever saw!" declared Mollie, with resolution.
"He murdered him murdered his cousin?" "Sure as you live. Only don't split on me. It's about the queerest business I ever ran into... Do about it? Why, what was I to do? I couldn't hang the poor devil, could I? Lord, but I was glad when they collared him, and had him stowed away safe in there!" The tall man listened with a grave face, grasping Granice's statement in his hand.
Somehow the subjects and governments of these Old World kingdoms have not hitherto laid emphasis on this. There's still a divinity that doth hedge a king in most European minds. To me this is the very queerest thing in the whole world. What again if Germany, Austria, Spain should follow Russia? Whether they do or not crowns will not henceforth be so popular.
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