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What is this?" continued Angelique, taking out a rose-tinted and curiously-twisted bottle sealed on the top with the mystic pentagon. "This looks prettier, and may be not less sure than the milk of mercy in its effect. What is it?" "Ha! ha!" laughed the woman with her weirdest laugh. "Your wisdom is but folly, Angelique des Meloises! You would kill, and still spare your enemy!
"Are you going to stay here?" Kendricks shook his head. "I stay at a little hotel in the Rue Taitbout. I stay there because it is full of the weirdest set of foreigners you ever knew. This morning we breakfast together?" "Come and see me when you will," Julien invited, "or I will come to you; not to breakfast, though I am engaged." "To Herr Freudenberg?" Kendricks asked quickly.
Yet he must be a man of stone to resist the freshness, the beauty and the youth of this straight, slender girl; the pink-and-whiteness of her, the aliveness and buoyancy and the thrilling sense of vitality she carried in her very presence. "What is the weirdest name you have ever heard?" asked Kara laughingly.
Perfect solitude reigns here, for so precipitous and steep are these fortress-like rocks that there is no "coigne of vantage," even for the mountain goat, not the tiniest path from summit to base, no single break in the shelving masses, some of which take the weirdest forms.
They went on playing it for hours; there never seemed any end to it; they counted in the weirdest way, making ciphers and tit-tat-toes on the green baize table with chalk, and wiped out with a little brush. Every trick of the adversary was deducted, and all the heads met over the chalk-marks to find out mistakes.
She passed her arm through his, not gently, but her laughing voice was very friendly: "If we jump a snake in the dark, my friend, we jump him together! It's like you, but your friend Shiela won't permit it." "Oh, it's only a conventional precaution " "Yes? Well, we'll take chances together.... Suppose by the wildest and weirdest stretch of a highly coloured imagination you jumped a rattler?"
At the same time the machinery roared down through the vessel with a rattle and a groaning that could be heard for miles, the weirdest sound surely that could be heard in the middle of the ocean, a thousand miles away from land. But this was not yet quite the end.
Mr Kay was always ferreting out the weirdest misdoings on the part of the members of his house, and rushing to Kennedy's study to tell him about them at full length, like a rather indignant dog bringing a rat he has hunted down into a drawing-room, to display it to the company.
"It certainly is the weirdest, craziest " He left the sentence unfinished, and presently they were again in sight of the old sewing-machine. George shouted mockingly. Alas! three figures stood in the road, and a pair of legs, with the toes turned up, indicated that a fourth figure lay upon its back in the snow, beneath a horseless carriage that had decided to need a horse.
And, if Henrietta would for the moment excuse her, she would go and order Hordle her father's man to see to the preparation of it himself. Foreign waiters, whatever their ability in other departments, have no natural understanding of a tea-pot and are liable to the weirdest ideas of cutting bread and butter.
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