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He seemed an old man, queerly old, with snow-white hair. I had an instant of whirling impressions. Something was familiar about his face. It was wrinkled and seamed with lines of age and care. There were gentle blue eyes. Then all I could see was the vast spread of his white shirt and coat, a black splotch of his tie outside our bars as Polter faced him. Babs gave a low cry. "Why why dear God "
Then, lighting one of the gas-rings, she put a frying-pan on the stove, and once more her mind reverted, as if in spite of herself, to Mr. Sleuth. Never had there been a more confiding or trusting gentleman than the lodger, and yet in some ways he was so secret, so so peculiar. She thought of the bag that bag which had rumbled about so queerly in the chiffonnier.
Then he said, in a tone which sounded as if he was asking the question of himself rather than me, "Who is the Mrs Shield he writes to?" He spoke so queerly and looked so strangely that I half wondered whether he was not wandering in his mind. "Please," said I, "do not ask me these questions. What is the matter with you, Mr Smith?"
That also smacks of the good air of that epoch. In those old pictures and poems they always made things living by making them local. Thus, queerly enough, the one touch that was not in the old mediaeval version was the most mediaeval touch of all. The servant obligingly points out a house with a blue door, and strongly recommends Dr. Faustus to take refuge in it.
"You fellows know," Johnny had declared once, standing over his prostrate and whimpering foe, "that I don't mind getting whopped at home, but they might send me away to another school, and then I could never whop any of you fellows." Johnny Trumbull kicking up the dust, himself dust-covered, his shoes, his little queerly fitting dun suit, his cropped head, all thickly powdered, loved it.
Is it the latest fashion?" "The very latest." Meg looked queerly at Jan as she slowly took off her hat. "There!" she said. Her hair was cropped as short as a boy's, except for the soft, tawny rings that framed her face. "Meg!" Jan cried. "Why on earth have you cut off your hair?" "Chill penury's the cause. I've turned it into good hard cash. It happens to be the fashionable colour just now."
It was surely not for nothing that Rover is dog's most common name, and would be ours, but for our too tenacious fear of losing something, to admit, even to ourselves, that we are hankering. There was a man who said: Strange that two such queerly opposite qualities as courage and hypocrisy are the leading characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon!
One by one, and very slowly, other nerves awoke. He became conscious that there was a sharp stone or knot under his head, which hurt, and he tried to move it, but queerly his head would not move, and then he found that neither would his hands. This was faintly puzzling, as things are in dreams.
"I'll do anything you say. Undine; I'll do anything in God's world to keep you!" She turned her eyes from the mirror and let them rest on his face, which looked as small and withered as an old man's, with a lower lip that trembled queerly.... The spring in New York proceeded through more than its usual extremes of temperature to the threshold of a sultry June.
Or possibly, if you got the booze put away safe from my prying eyes, you might come back to bed and I'd find you here in the morning just as if nothing had happened. How Is that for guesswork?" "You go tahell!" growled Casey, swallowing a sickly grin. He pressed down the tobacco in his pipe, eyeing Nolan queerly.
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