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He pondered on it, but did not quite go the length of suspecting anything, still less of suspecting Susan. Still, he thought it odd; but he thought it odder, when, one market-day, old Isaac Levi said to him: "Do you remember the promise you made to the lion-hearted young man, your brother?" "Do you ask that to affront me?" "You never visit her; and others are not so neglectful." "Who?"
"It's all the odder because my mother-in-law, since her second marriage, has lived so much in the country that she's practically lost sight of all her other American friends. Besides which, you can see how completely she has identified herself with Monsieur de Chantelle's nationality and adopted French habits and prejudices.
"That's because, with me for his master, he has had good reason to laugh," remarked Jean Jacques, who had come at last to take a despondent view of himself. "That's bosh," rejoined Mme. Glozel; "I've seen several people odder than you." She went over to the cage eagerly, and was about to take it away. "Excuse me," interposed Jean Jacques, "I will carry the cage to the house.
It may be convenient enough to censure inheritance for this or that oddity. Our grandmothers had strange moods, spoke to people on some days and did not speak on other days, so we have diligently doubled our bequest, and have spells odder yet, find our friends quite delightful for a week or more, and then as distasteful for a still longer time.
"I don't eat candy as a rule. It's not only extravagant, it's very unhealthy." The little girl smiled. "How do you suppose your stomach knows what you put into it?" she asked. "I guess you're just a little bit afraid, aren't you?" "Odder than Dick's hatband!" quoth Mrs. Forbes again, mentally. "I take horehound drops sometimes," she said aloud, "for a cold."
"Well, sar, moster," replied the boy, "when I fotch in dem guns an' luf 'em on de table I slip out de do' kase I aint wantin' to see no horns an' hoofs like Marse Jack say de Yankees done got, an' I see Mose talkin' wid dem soldiers in de road. Den he slip thoo 'em into de bresh on de odder side de road an' never come out no mo'; an' den I come hyar to tol' you."
The more she talks and the odder the things she says, the more he's delighted evidently. Anne Shirley, you come right in here this minute, do you hear me!" A series of staccato taps on the west window brought Anne flying in from the yard, eyes shining, cheeks faintly flushed with pink, unbraided hair streaming behind her in a torrent of brightness.
Dey makes me tired," he said. "Mos' e'ry day some farmer comes in an' tries teh run deh shop. See? But dey gits t'rowed right out! I jolt dem right out in deh street before dey knows where dey is! See?" "Sure," said Jimmie. "Dere was a mug come in deh place deh odder day wid an idear he wus goin' teh own deh place! Hully gee, he wus goin' teh own deh place!
One ob dem leads straight to hell, de odder go right to damnation. Joe opened his eyes under the impressive eloquence and visions of an awful future, and exclaimed, 'Josh, take which road you please; I go troo de wood. 'I am not disposed to take any new trouble, said the President, 'just at this time, and shall neither go for Spain nor the negro in this matter, but shall take to the woods."
"Vell, most a h'our, now, I tink, and dem's Kerrigan's horses, as is five year olds an' stronk lak' de devil. Dey run good on de five-mile flat, dey do, sure, an' odder places vhere snow is pack nice." This time Stefan didn't answer. He shouted at his team, that started on the run, but Zeb Foraker's St.
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