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Updated: September 20, 2025
Joram does a fine business. Ex-cellent business! 'I am very glad to hear it, said I. 'I knew you would be, said Mr. Omer. 'And Joram and Minnie are like Valentines. What more can a man expect? What's his limbs to that! His supreme contempt for his own limbs, as he sat smoking, was one of the pleasantest oddities I have ever encountered.
How it was capped, and how desperately they worked to feed and double-feed the now swarming Oddities, lest any break in the food-supplies should set them to instituting inquiries, which, with songs about work, was their favourite amusement.
If I snatched Desire out of her path into mine, she and I would see all those things together. I finished at last, and set my room in order. There was a fire laid ready for lighting in my hearth, a mere artistic flourish in such weather. I kindled it, and put in the flames three of the volumes from the ancient bookcase. The others were oddities in occult science.
I suppose that had I been thirty years older when first I knew him, William would have seemed to me little worthier of attention than a twopenny postage-stamp seems to-day. Yet, no: William really had some oddities that would have caught even an oldster's eye. But in details of surface he was unusual. In them he happened to be rather ahead of his time. He was a socialist, for example.
Addison is gay and witty and delightful but he only plays at being human; Lamb's essays the translation into print of a heap of idiosyncrasies and oddities, and likes and dislikes, and strange humours come straight and lovably from a human soul. The prose writers of the romantic movement brought back two things into writing which had been out of it since the seventeenth century.
Holmes has been likened to Thomas Hood; but there is little in common between them save the power of combining fancy and sentiment with grotesque drollery and humor. Hood, under all his whims and oddities, conceals the vehement intensity of a reformer.
Quite a large circle of prominent persons may remember an instance in which a leading Doctor of Divinity, renowned for his strong common-sense as well as beloved for his goodness, was joining in a general conversation on human traits and oddities, when one of the company alluded to popular superstitions and acknowledged that he had one, though only one that of the "moon over the shoulder."
Of course radical agitators have tried to stir up trouble now and again, but the men have mostly regarded them simply as human oddities and their interest in them has been the same sort of interest that they would have in a four-legged man. In England we did meet the trades union question squarely in our Manchester plant.
In the reader, Gordon Wright's letter will, perhaps, excite surprise rather than hilarity; but Longueville thought it highly characteristic of his friend. What it especially pointed to was Gordon's want of imagination a deficiency which was a matter of common jocular allusion between the two young men, each of whom kept a collection of acknowledged oddities as a playground for the other's wit.
Altogether the two young men grew quite jolly, recalling a hundred oddities, and reknitting their friendship at the expense of the Fatherland. "But was there ever a more madcap expedition than ours?" exclaimed Peter. "Most boys start out to be pirates " "And some do become music-publishers," Lancelot finished grimly, suddenly reminded of a grievance. "Ha! ha! ha! Poor fellow!" laughed Peter.
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