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I did not care any longer for the perfume, and went away and sat very straight and stiff at Mrs. Morris' feet. The lady's eyes still followed me. "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Morris," she said; "but that is a very queer-looking dog you have there." "Yes," said Mrs. Morris, quietly; "he is not a handsome dog." "And he is a new one, isn't he?" said Mrs. Montague. "Yes." "And that makes "
When he reached the top of the bluff he found a grassy common stretching back toward the rice-fields. Here and there over these downs strayed the queer-looking water-buffaloes. Some of them were plunged deep in pools of water, and lay there like pigs with only their noses out.
The soil was black and muddy from the recent rains and the rotting of the fallen leaves; the trunks of the trees were black and the sky above us was now, as if in mourning, charged with great, heavy clouds. And it was in this sombre and desolate retreat that we saw the white walls of the pavilion as we approached. A queer-looking building without a window visible on the side by which we neared it.
However, among them, he marked his mother; and his sombre grandeur relaxed momentarily; a more genial light came into his eyes. Isabel was dancing with the queer-looking duck; and it was to be noted that the lively gentleman's gait was more sedate than it had been with Miss Fanny Minafer, but not less dexterous and authoritative.
Just behind the corner of a glassed-in telephone booth, but in full view of all, he is questioned by an employee in a white duck suit. Man after man is sent on out, to the growing discouragement, no doubt, of those remaining in line. At last, around a little corner in the stairs, the first girl is summoned. The line moves up. A queer-looking man with pop eyes asks a few questions.
"I'll try to remember," she said, and thoughtfully lifted to her face the bouquet of violets and lilies, a gesture which George noted without approval. "Look here! Who sent you those flowers you keep makin' such a fuss over?" "He did." "Who's 'he'?" "The queer-looking duck." George feared no such rival; he laughed loudly.
She went closer and examined them, and glanced around the room with doubting eyes. There were spurs, quirts, chaps and queer-looking bits upon the walls; there were cigarette stubs and burned matches innumerable upon the rough, board floor, and here in her hand she turned the pages of her favorite abstractedly and a paper fluttered out and fell, face upward, on the floor.
The rush to Kurnalpi had just broken out, so Driffield, Luck, and I joined the crowd of fortune-hunters; and a queer-looking crowd they were too, for every third or fourth swagman carried on his shoulder a small portable condenser, the boiler hanging behind him and the cooler in front; every party, whether with horses, carts, or camels, carried condensers of one shape or another; for the month was January, no surface water existed on the track, and only salt water could be obtained, by digging in the salt lakes which the road passed.
What queer-looking chaps they are, with their long lances and long beards!" "Yes; they are Cossacks Russian irregular cavalry." "Irregular enough I don't doubt; but they spitted the French men nicely. They look exactly what I thought the Pope of Rome was like." "Cross, call the master of the hotel, and tell him to come here."
"Gravel soil," remarked Soames, and sideways he glanced at the coat Bosinney wore. Into the side-pockets of this coat were thrust bundles of papers, and under one arm was carried a queer-looking stick. Soames noted these and other peculiarities.
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