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Gee, it must be great! Don't you think so, Auntie?" Aunt Clarissa's reply was noncommittal. That evening she wrote a letter to Augustus Cabot in Boston. "He is a good boy," she wrote, referring to Galusha, "but queer oh, dreadfully queer. It's his father's queerness cropping out, of course, but it shouldn't be permitted to develop.

DICK: Trouble is, if you're queer enough to be amusing, it might open the door to queerness. HARRY: Now don't say things like that to Claire. DICK: I don't have to. HARRY: Then you think she's queer, do you? Queer as you are, you think she's queer. I would like to have Dr Emmons come out. I suppose an intellectual woman and for all Claire's hate of her ancestors, she's got the bug herself.

It is a term describing a shade of mental obliquity and queerness something short of irresponsible madness, and something more than temporarily "rattled" or bewildered for the moment.

"Because he's too tired, like I was. Only if I take my boots off and kick him very kindly, I have to kick he wakes up and he's cross and then he gets into bed." He stared at her, frowning, as though trying to understand or else to explain this queerness of his father's. Next minute he found himself clasped firmly in her arms.

The only certain thing was that the Archdeacon had a bruise on his temple and a scratch on his cheek, and that he was "queer," oh, yes, very queer indeed! It was finally about this "queerness" that the gossip of the town most persistently clung.

The way things is at the present time it wouldn't suit either the driver or me to be taking the train on while there'd be soldiers in it. It's queer times we're having at present and that's a fact." The extreme queerness of the times offered no kind of consolation to Tom O'Donovan. But he knew it was no good arguing with the guard.

Next, Daylight surmised that he might be touched with religion; but, quest about as he would, in a conversation covering the most divergent topics, he could find no hint of queerness or unusualness. So it was, when between them they had washed and wiped the dishes and put them away, and had settled down to a comfortable smoke, that Daylight put his question. "Look here, Ferguson.

I should like to gamble a bit at Baden-Baden. I should like to go out to Colorado and have a lick at mining speculations. I want to rough it some too, and see how life is lived close to the bone: ship for a voyage before the mast; enlist for a campaign or two somewhere and have joy of battle; join the gypsies or the Mormons or the Shakers for awhile, and taste all the queerness of things.

She could read his character in his face. But how could this be, if he were responsible for so much evil? She shook her head wearily. There was no explanation, no understanding of this world which destroyed little babes and bruised women's breasts. As for her having strayed into that neighborhood of fine residences, she was unsurprised. It was in line with her queerness.

Was it possible that the boy was in love, and with Betty? He sounded Miss Raeburn; found that she did not rise to his suggestion at all was, in fact, annoyed by it and with the usual stupidity of the clever man failed to draw any reasonable inference from the queerness of his aunt's looks and sighs. As to the little minx herself, she was inscrutable.