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And, for an instant, as he watched it, the doctor was aware that a faint uneasiness stirred in the depths of his own being, focusing itself for the moment upon this curious behaviour of the uncanny creature before him.
"You have been there in winter. You should go in June. In the season it is as pleasant as anywhere else in the world." "I have no desire to return. And yet " "Well?" "And yet I have decided to go straight to Boulogne, and across the Channel." I had met Julie Rosier under curious circumstances only a few hours before.
He made no mention of the subject which lay nearest his heart and mind, and they chattered as gaily and irresponsibly as children. But when supper was over, and they settled themselves in the little sitting-room, a curious constraint fell upon them both.
And of their appliances, perhaps nothing is more wonderful to a man than the curious fact that what is the dominant feature of almost all human devices in mechanism is absent the wheel is absent; among all the things they brought to earth there is no trace or suggestion of their use of wheels. One would have at least expected it in locomotion.
His interest grew to the extent that he issued from his dugout early of mornings in order to see her depart for her mysterious destination. He waited at unseemly hours in the vicinity of Jonathan's curious dwelling to behold her as she came back home.
If the poor pen had a mind it would as certainly have bemoaned the unfairness of its getting all the stain and the writer all the glory! It is curious that this extraordinary man should have got no recognition from his countrymen even after his death.
When I read the order I could not believe my eyes, and though I was sober I reeled. I called another official and showed him the curious document. 'He was an old, experienced hand at the office, but when he saw this order, the paper dropped from his hands. "Where to?" I asked. "To Zaszyversk!" We looked at each other. Nice things that young man must have been up to!
When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious. Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out."
He raised himself on his elbow, looking at her with sudden interest. "You're from the Mountain? How curious! I suppose that's why you're so different...." Her happy blood bathed her to the forehead. He was praising her and praising her because she came from the Mountain! "Am I... different?" she triumphed, with affected wonder. "Oh, awfully!"
It was, in truth, a strange bit of mosaic work, fashioned with curious art, as the result of negotiations between the Whigs and the Peelites which had extended over a period of nearly six months. It represented the triumph of expediency, but it awakened little enthusiasm in spite of the much-vaunted ability and experience of its members.
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