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Or he may remember that he has had no sleep for twenty-four hours so he just drops down and sleeps for ten minutes while there is time. But generally, matters of ordinary routine drop out of a man's thoughts altogether." "That's a queer-like thing, a body forgetting his dinner!" murmured Bogle.
"Sic a queer-like chield!" he remarked inwardly, stepped on one side to let him pass and perceived it was himself reflected from head to foot in a large mirror, which had been placed while he was out the night before.
An' jist wi' the fell greitin' I cam to mysel', an' my hert was gaein' like a pump 'at wad fain pit oot a fire. Noo wasna that a queer-like dream? I'll no say, mem, but I hae curriet an' kaimbt it up a wee, to gar't tell better." Ginevra had from the first been absorbed in listening, and her brown eyes seemed to keep growing larger and larger as he went on.
Davidson was fully represented by his man, and John could no longer disentangle the two in his own mind taking a gloomy view of the parish when he was laid up by lumbago and the Doctor had to struggle on single-handed, and regarding the future when both would be gone with despair. "Ay, ay, Hillocks," he once remarked to that worthy, "this 'll be a queer-like place when me an' the Doctor 's awa'.
'Neither have I! he says, 'I came in out of curiosity, he says, and then he laughed, sir queer-like. And it was just after that that what I'm going to tell you about happened." "Tell," commanded Spargo. "Well, sir, there was a gentleman came along, down this grand hall that we were sitting in a tall, handsome gentleman, with a grey beard.
It makes you feel queer-like" He paused a moment thoughtfully, watching the golden horse as it stepped quietly, lightly, with head high, just ahead of them. "The red comes onto Sangre de Cristo, an' Brinker sees it. He looks at the blood on the peaks, an' then at the gold horse lyin' there all torn an' dirty, an' this is what Brinker does, an' maybe he couldn't help it.
"'For your sake I will; we may see others of our acquaintance before leaving this, says he, sorter queer-like, as if to mean, no doubt of it. "The door of the room we had been talking in shut of its own accord. We stooped, and he touched a spring in the wall, a trap-door flew open, showing a flight of steps.
I thocht Sandy was raley gettin' akinda lichtwecht, d'ye ken, for I cud nether mak' heid nor tail o' his confused blethers. "Keep me, Bawbie, do you no' see through't?" he says, glowerin' at me wi' a queer-like look in his e'e. "Gie's three bawbees! Look now; there's thae three bawbees. Weel than, here's twa here, an' there's ane there.
I treated ye ill aboot the enlistin'. But I wasna gaun to enlist to please you, nor ma aunt, neither. He rose slowly and picked up his shabby jacket. 'But, by , I'll enlist to please masel'! He held out his hand. 'There it is, if ye want it, Macgreegor. . . . Ha'e ye a match? Weel, show a licht. Is ma nose queer-like?
Satisfied that all was now right, the three brothers made the most of the evening thus afforded them, and so did the two girls, and all played, sang, and went in for various games until eleven o'clock. Then the lads retired to a room assigned to them. "I say," said Tom, as he prepared to turn in. "That adventure started queer-like, but we came out of it all right."
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