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"Didn't you think it queer to be paid before you reached your destination?" "Yes, but the rest was queerer. After I had taken the money I never refuses money, sir and was expecting him to get into the hack, he steps up to me again and says in a lower tone than before: 'My wife is very nervous.
Trent rose and glanced again through the papers set out on the table. 'Business letters and documents, mostly, said Mr. Murch. 'Reports, prospectuses, and that. A few letters on private matters, nothing in them that I can see. The American secretary Bunner his name is, and a queerer card I never saw turned he's been through this desk with me this morning.
The stranger, however, was rather insistent and asked if she would rent the cow, then, for fifty francs an hour? Was there ever a queerer offer? Of course fifty francs was a gold-mine to Mère Gavin, so she accepted, and was fairly overcome when the man laid down three hundred francs on the table and told her to keep them for him.
In the Vergnès air at any rate I seem myself to have sat unscathed and unterrified not alarmed even by so much as a call to the blackboard; only protected by my insignificance, which yet covered such a sense of our dusky squalor. Queer for us the whole affair, assuredly; but how much queerer for the poor petits pays chauds who had come so far for their privilege.
Pickering did not answer, but bestowed his glance on the programme in his hand. "And now she is queerer than ever," said Alexia, glad to think that the dainty blue affair on her head, she called a bonnet, was already doing its work, as she heard a lady in the seat back of them, question if it were not one of the newest of Madame Marchaud's creations.
For aesthetics it suffices that they do move us; to all further inquisition of the tedious and stupid it can be replied that, however queer these things may be, they are no queerer than anything else in this incredibly queer universe. But to those for whom my theory seems to open a vista of possibilities I willingly offer, for what they are worth, my fancies.
If you like to leave it on the shelf in my study, I shall not object, but it is yours to do what you like with." He sighed profoundly, and turned away with his lip trembling. "Good gracious!" Miss Tredgold was heard to exclaim. Then she spoke to Adelaide. "Run into the house and bring out a cup of coffee. The precious man gets queerer each moment. What a present to give the child!"
Blake, looking on from a little distance, saw Joe turn aside from the aged man. "That's rather queer," thought the lad. "If that was his father it isn't a very cordial welcome." As he looked, he saw Joe walking out of the garden. "Queerer still," Blake mused. "Even if that isn't Mr.
The flower picker bunched her flowers into a tight round knot which she surveyed with pride. "That step-mother of Esther's now," she said. "I don't hold much with her. Flighty, I call her. Delicate, too, if looks don't lie. Men are queer. The only thing queerer is women. What d'ye suppose a sensible middle-aged man like Doctor Coombe ever saw in that pretty doll?
'Seems queer about 'im yonder desertin' at all. ''E'll be a bloomin' side queerer when I've done with 'im, said Ortheris. They were talking in whispers, for the stillness of the wood and the desire of slaughter lay heavy upon them. 'I make no doubt he had his reasons for desertin'; but, my faith! I make less doubt ivry man has good reason for killin' him, said Mulvaney.
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