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I wrote you I had selected a good traveling companion. I have, haven't I?" "He would have it so, Mr. Campbell," put in Hephzy. "I said no and kept on sayin' it, but he vowed and declared he wouldn't go unless I did. I know you must think it's queer my taggin' along, but it isn't any queerer to you than it is to me." Jim behaved very well, considering. He did not laugh.
And the way it was done was odd, too. Right arm and left leg." "Ah," said Vickers, "living right on a railroad, the way I do, you see some queerer accidents than that. Now, I remember " But Mrs. Tarbell found this conversation growing quite too ghastly to be listened to with composure, so she turned abruptly toward the sofa. The doctor was now bathing and examining Mrs. Stiles's ankle, and Mrs.
Nothing queerer could be imagined than all these charming fashions and finery of the frivolous century of Louis XV., these Watteau shepherdess costumes, furbelows, plumes and laces, upon these black, ugly-faced, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, frightful people. Thus decked out they were no longer even negroes and negresses; they were apes and monkeys. Add to all this a deafening uproar.
Perhaps she had been naughty; perhaps folks were going to snip her fingers; but "Hollis" was on her side now and forever. She began to feel quite contented. She had got inside the church at last, and was very well pleased with it. It was even queerer than she had expected. "What was that high-up thing the prayer-man was a-standin' on?" Flyaway merely asked this of her own wise little brain.
Mamma's the only person something hasn't happened to." "I should have thought everything had happened to me," said Mamma. "That makes it queerer." Mamma went up with Mark into his room. Papa's room. You could hear her feet going up and down in it, and the squeaking wail of the wardrobe door as she opened and shut it. She waited, listening. When she heard her mother come downstairs she went to him.
A man what's queer about his food is goin' to be queerer about a'most everything else. Give me any man that can eat three square meals a day an' enjoy 'em, an' I'll undertake to live with him peaceful, but I don't go to the altar again with no food crank, if I know it. "It was partly my own fault, too, as I see later.
Hello!" said Charles Svendt, agape at the too friendly greeting. "That you, Graeme?" "The worst half of me, my boy. Margaret's up at the house. You'll be quite a surprise to her." "Aw!" said Charles Svendt thoughtfully, as he readjusted his eyeglass. "Demned queer place, this!" and he gazed round lugubriously. "It is that, my boy. Queerer than you think, and queerer people." "Aw!
Heaven knows what they must have thought, if they thought anything, of their queer customer in that obscure little Ohio village; but he could not have been queerer to them than to his fellow-villagers, I am sure.
I don't believe he's a bit queerer 'n you are, child." And Mrs. Carr laughed a little laugh, half pride and half dissatisfaction.
Well, as the tide was sending me along nicely, I didn't get out the oars again, but sat in the boat meditating like, when all of a sudden I felt myself very queer in the inside, and pains came on just for all the world as if I had swallowed a score or two of big mackerel, and they were all kicking and wriggling about in my bread-basket. `They are the smoke-worms the doctor told me about, thinks I. `They don't like the taste of his stuff, that's the truth of it. Well, I felt queerer and queerer, and Southsea Castle began to spin round and round, and the kickers went dancing up and down, and the ships in the harbour were all turning summersets, and every sort of circumvolution and devilment you could think of took place.
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