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When Aunt Izzie spoke to her, she fluttered and behaved so queerly, that Clover almost laughed; and even Katy, who could see nothing wrong in people she loved, was glad to carry her away to the playroom. "Come out to the bower," she said, putting her arm round the blue barege waist. "A bower!" cried Imogen. "How sweet!" But when they reached the asparagus boughs her face fell.
Netta repaired to the drawing-room, and threw herself on to the uncomfortable sofa, struggling with her tears. For about a fortnight after her marriage she had imagined herself in love with Melrose; then when the personal illusion was gone, the illusion of position and wealth persisted. He might be queer, and behave queerly in Italy.
"I do," said Dick, with the rising inflection which was his habit, when the words were used for a bait to catch another question. "Well, where is he, then?" Dick straightened up and smiled down upon her queerly. "Count ten before you ask me that again," he parried, "because maybe you'd rather not know."
The voice of little Ann reached him, clear and high above the smothered whirring of the car. "Come on, Grandpapa!" Lord Valleys grimaced beneath his crisp moustache the word grandpapa always fell queerly on the ears of one who was but fifty-six, and by no means felt it and jerking his gloved hand towards Ann, he said: "Send down to the lodge gate for this."
"I don't know that I ever hear from Mary Downs," was Cora's sharp reply, "No?" His voice was queerly questioning. "Well, I want to say I think Mary a very slick little girl." Cora could not mistake his intention. He wanted her to think that he believed Mary was not one of her set. By "slick" he probably meant to convey the idea that he considered the former milliner girl might be tricky.
"Lourenço, tell Tucu to say to the Red Bones that we come led by a black-bearded white man; that this blackboard comes from the far-off country where all men wear black beards; that the blackbeard will speak with the chief only." The Americans looked queerly at the young Brazilian, as did Lourenço himself. But without question Lourenço obeyed. Calling to Tucu, he gave the message.
Then, with a queerly whimsical smile, he said musingly: "To marry the girl with the golden hair and purse? Not such a terrible fate to look forward to, after all! She would demand a great deal, and I should have to keep the brakes on. Still that would do me no harm! You look as though you had been down a sulphur mine. Come, cheer up all may yet be well." Suddenly he laughed out loud.
"Yes, you DO feel like one of the open space sort, trying to force yourself into the dark, don't you?" "How should I know?" she answered queerly. The conversation ended there. The evening was deepening over the earth. Already the valley was full of shadow. One tiny square of light stood opposite at Crossleigh Bank Farm. Brightness was swimming on the tops of the hills.
Oh, but there is, GERTRUDE declares. They are in the basket. Everybody stands up. Gertrude and Walter come around from behind the table, and look at the fairies and brownies, but they don't go very close to them, because they are just a little bit scared. At the same time, Father begins to act rather queerly, looking down at the floor, and keeping himself up by holding onto the table.
There was no talking, except that, once or twice, the police bent toward one another, and whispered odd remarks concerning the hall, that appeared queerly audible in the intense silence. But in a while there was not even a whisper from anyone, and only the monotonous drip, drip of the quiet rain without the great entrance, and the low, dull sound of the fire in the big fireplace.
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