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Thad, apparently, had something on his mind which he wished to get rid of, judging from the way in which he several times looked queerly at his chum.
This latter happened rather frequently, because Dan, preposterously willing for any manner of combat, had a very great horror of seeing Billie in a fight; and Billie, almost odiously ready himself, simply refused to see Dan stripped to his shirt and with his fists aloft. This sat queerly upon them, and made them the objects of plots.
"Oh, I've been writing to Charlotte I wish you knew her better:" he could still hear, from recent weeks, this record of the fact, just as he could still be conscious, not otherwise than queerly, of the gratuitous element in Maggie's wish, which he had failed as yet to indicate to her.
"Rachel acts queerly to-day," said Mrs. Harding. "I think she can't be feeling well. If she don't feel better to-morrow I shall advise her to send for the doctor." "I am afraid it was mean to play such a trick on Aunt Rachel," thought Jack, half repentantly. "I didn't think she'd take it so much in earnest. I must keep dark about that letter. She'd never forgive me if she knew."
This throw was fair; the white cow came to earth again; and before it could rise Santa had made the lasso fast around a post of the corral with a swift and simple knot, and had leaped upon the cow again with the rawhide hobbles. And then she ran swiftly to her furnace at the gate and brought the branding-iron, queerly shaped and white-hot.
"But you thought you'd let me say it to you again." "Yes," she said. And, queerly enough, she felt her courage coming back. She managed the last "yes" very steadily. It had occurred to her that if he'd wanted merely to get rid of her, he could have done it quicker than this. He was looking her over now with a coolly appraising eye. "What professional experience have you had?" he asked.
Sponge, nothing disconcerted by the noise. Mrs. Jogglebury looked reproachfully at him, as much as to say, 'How can you behave so? Mr. Sponge, as he eyed Jog's ill-made, queerly put on garments, wished that he had not desired Leather to go to the meet.
You were bold enough to come again to this office.... I fancied you would be gone from Coldriver." His voice broke queerly. "I suppose you realize what you have done and are satisfied with the price the price of forfeiting the respect of every honest man and woman you know! That is a great deal to give up.
"By heaven," said Archer, "'Tonio was right in saying we were cut off, isolated here, and if he hadn't slipped away in that mysterious fashion I'd rather take his word than than Willett's impressions. Where has Willett been all morning anyhow? He never came near me!" Everybody within earshot knew, and nobody answered. Archer looked queerly about him.
And then clear and distinct there rang out on the night air, a queer old continental command: "Fix, pieces!" They did not know what this meant at first. But some old men in the line happened to remember and fixed their bayonets. Then there was clatter and clank down the entire line as others imitated their examples. "Poise, fo'k!" rang out again more queerly still.
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