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A silence ensued, which neither Miss Nugent nor Lord Colambre seemed willing, or able, to break. Very good company, faith, you three! One of ye asleep, and the other two saying nothing, to keep one awake. Colambre, have you no Dublin news? Grace, have you no Buxton scandal? What was it Lady Clonbrony told us you'd tell us, about the oddness of Miss Broadhurst's settling her marriage?
They came lumbering through an archway over an old trail, the homesteader sitting jauntily, howbeit uncertainly, upon the front seat for the roadway tilted in spots and behind him a couple from the town, a man and a woman, the man laughing and supporting his companion as the wagon swayed, and the woman wondering and plucky, and laughing, too, at the oddness of it all.
So when you feel disposed I shall guide your steps for audience with our good King." The stranger, weak and spent, leaning mightily on his young friend made his way to the great hall. And as we have recounted, though all were struck by oddness and meanness of the stranger's clothes, yet only Sir Kay made point to taunt him.
"'It is plain as day, said I. 'I am the person with the red beard with whom you came down third class from London this morning, and you told me your name was Burgess and that you were a butcher. When you looked to see the time, I remarked upon the oddness of your watch, which led to your telling me that it was the gift of your uncle.
'Ah! you did not hesitate when you were asked! said Annette, sighing; and Violet at once blushed, smiled, and sighed, as she spoke her quick conscious 'No, no! 'Such a romance cannot always be expected, said Annette, a little mournfully. 'He is everything estimable, in spite of his oddness. But then, this affair so recent! 'What I wish? To have my own Annette near me.
Finding she was not to be moved, he obeyed her commands, and straight went out of the box, more amazed at the oddness of the adventure, than can be well expressed; and yet more so, when he afterwards heard she was the wife of a person of great condition, was in the first month of her marriage with him, and had the reputation of a woman of strict virtue.
The conductor who took her penny in the motor-bus never suspected that on the pane before her, where some Agency had caused to be printed in colour the words "Seek ye the Lord" she saw, in addition to the amazing oddness of the Anglo-Saxon race, a dangerous incitement to unfaith.
There are days when I manage to do so under the excitement of a coming journey or for some other form of pleasure, but as a rule I postpone my rising until the very latest possible moment." George having thus delivered himself closed his lips and was silent. "Humph!" said Mr. Repton. It was not what the boy had said so much as the impression of oddness which affected that worthy man.
"He is a young man, of good family I believe, spending the summer with a neighbour of ours who is his relation," Mr. Randolph answered. "What is he a fanatic about?" This question did not get an immediate answer; the conversation diverged, and it was lost. Daisy's spoon made the round of the company. It was greatly admired, both from its oddness and from the beauty of its carving.
Asking wherein her oddness consisted, and learning that it was mostly in silence and tears, she was not sorry to gather that some disappointment had befallen her, and felt considerable curiosity to know what it was. She therefore told him to send her upstairs.
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