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Updated: May 14, 2025
I told you that we were an odd lot, you know; but, if you find us odder than you bargained for, I should advise you to clear out." "Thank you, I have spent a very happy day." "Indeed, I am glad to hear it. You must be easily satisfied, have an Arcadian mind, and that sort of thing. Take some whisky, and light your pipe."
After that he fell to showing Gip tricks, odd tricks, and still odder the way they were done. He explained them, he turned them inside out, and there was the dear little chap nodding his busy bit of a head in the sagest manner. I did not attend as well as I might. "Hey, presto!" said the Magic Shopman, and then would come the clear, small "Hey, presto!" of the boy.
The mother's eyes gloated on a scene her imagination could call before her. Her lips were set in a vindictive smile. "Aye, she'll cry, won' she, an' carry on, an' tell how Pete, or some odder feller, beats 'er an' she'll say she's sorry an' all dat an' she ain't happy, she ain't, an' she wants to come home agin, she does."
"No," said Jean ruefully. "Isn't it odd that no one ever leaves us a legacy? But I needn't say that, for it would be much odder if anyone did. I don't think there is a single human being in the world entitled to leave us a penny piece.
"She ban fine gur'rl, Aye tal yu. Sum day Aye ban sending her deerskin from lumber camp." Bangs braced up again. "Er you and Miss Spencer er not engaged, are you?" he said, the way a fellow goes at it when he is diving into cold water. Ole looked around in perfect good humor. "Get married by each odder?" he said. "Yee whiz! no, Master Bangs. She ban nice gur'rl. It ent any nicer in Siwash College.
It is odd how fond Anglo-Indian women are of other people's husbands." "Much odder," Boggley retorts, "that you should have become such a little backbiting cat! You'll soon be as bad as old Mother Brodie, and she's the worst in Calcutta."
Her smile, always charming, now caught light from her lips, and spread its gentle fascination over all her face. It was impossible not to long to kiss her. I advanced to congratulate, to embrace her. Grosse stepped forward, and checked me. "No," he said. "Walk your ways to the odder end of the rooms and let us see if she can go to you."
George's Square to stay over the week-end. It was the mid-term holiday, and from the first moment to the last the visit was one almost delirious orgy of pleasure to the little pupil-governess. It was also a revelation. It would be hard to conceive of anything odder than the appearance of Meg Morton at this time.
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