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"That is the worst of you, Gregson, you go into extremes," observed Ernest. "We tried once, at home, for curiosity's sake, just the dinner you describe, and a very good dinner we had, though it was more suited to a Frenchman's than an Englishman's taste. My father says that if people studied the subject, many more things would be found fit for food than are now used.
The diggers were now so far advanced in their labours as to discover that the sides of the grave which they were clearing out had been originally secured by four walls of freestone, forming a parallelogram, for the reception, probably, of the coffin. "It is worth while proceeding in our labours," said the Antiquary to Sir Arthur, "were it but for curiosity's sake.
Uncle Jethro wrote for the first time in his life letters: short letters, but in his own handwriting, and deserving of being read for curiosity's sake if there were time. The wording was queer enough and guarded enough, but they were charged with a great affection which clung to them like lavender.
At Kingsbridge he made his way thoughtfully to his room. How could life ever be restored to him as it had been? He was really forty years of age. He sat down in his chair near his lamp and took up his book, "Science and Health," and opened it aimlessly. Then he thought for curiosity's sake he would see where he had opened it what the particular page or paragraph his eye fell on had to say to him.
I haven't been popular I must be popular. It's another art or perhaps it isn't an art at all. It's something else; one must find out what it is. Is it something awfully queer? you blush! something barely decent? All the greater incentive to curiosity! Curiosity's an immense motive; we shall have tremendous sport. They all do it; it's only a question of how.
At one point, when I referred to the Western check, he asked to see it again, just for curiosity's sake, and as I watched him look it over I could almost see the change that it was producing in his attitude toward me. I do not know to what extent he had previously believed my story, if at all. One thing was clear: the magic check now made it all real to him.
Shan't see him there to-morrow night, I expect," he added with a laugh, bringing down his rocking, tiled chair on its four legs, and determining at last to light the cigarette. "You wanted to see the death, I thought," remarked Dick. "I did; but, hang it, the fellow's been dying so long, my curiosity's worn out.
Leisure and "room" have been passing out of our manners together, but here and there, being of stouter structure, the latter lingers and survives. Here and there, indeed, in this blessed Italy, reluctantly modern in spite alike of boasts and lamentations, it seems to have been preserved for curiosity's and fancy's sake, with a vague, sweet odour of the embalmer's spices about it.
For curiosity's sake he had tried the denial of self. He recognized that now. But this murder was it to dog him all his life? Was he always to be burdened by his past? Was he really to confess? Never. There was only one bit of evidence left against him. The picture itself that was evidence. He would destroy it. Why had he kept it so long?
"I want to borrow a hundred thousand pounds." "Scott! Come, who are you?" "Nobody that you know." "What is your name?" "Cecil Rhodes." "No, I don't remember hearing the name before. Now then just for curiosity's sake what has sent you to me on this extraordinary errand?" "The intention to make a hundred thousand pounds for you and as much for myself within the next sixty days." "Well, well, well.
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