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Even in these nightmares, she had always seen herself, with a sick heart, bearing up bravely for Leonard's sake, making it easier for him. A hunchback, dodging under the elbows of the crowd, stared at her, and smiled queerly and whispered to himself.
I saw him looking at me queerly, as if he thought it was not quite right with me, either, and then I recovered myself, and got back to the office and to America; but it was an effort. One does not skip across thirty years and two oceans, at my age, so easily as that. And then the dull look came back into Frands's eyes, and he nodded stolidly. Yes, he would go to Florida.
It was like the last mutterings of thunder after a heavy storm. Maskull listened, without getting up. The drumming faded into silence, and did not return. He smiled queerly, and said aloud, "Thanks, Surtur! I accept the omen." When he was about to get up, he found that the shrivelled skin that had been his third arm was flapping disconcertingly with every movement of his body.
And then, as often, I saw the other side of the man. Suddenly he looked at me, standing wistful at his side. "They have cursed me," said he, by way of a question, "they have cursed me every day." And seeing me silent, he insisted, "Tell me, is it not so, Davy?" "It is so," I said, wondering that he should pry, "but it was while they suffered. And and some refrained." "And you?" he asked queerly.
Rogers has acted queerly and he is afraid to try anything out at these furnaces, so we have to save up enough for him to go up to Kentucky to some little furnaces there and make the experiment. It will cost a lot for the trip and the things, but I think we can do it. This simple life agrees with us all. Just look how fat Lovey is getting with hardly anything but buttermilk and corn-bread.
The night before his father had come home with an unusually large and queerly shaped package under his arm and had taken it straight into the parlour. The boy's curiosity was at fever heat and got the better of his customary inertia in the face of explicit prohibitions. Having dragged a heavy wooden chair into the pantry, he placed its tall back directly against the shelves.
It is true I was now compelled to observe at these times a certain lofty irritability in his character, yet I more than half fancied this to be queerly assumed in order to inform me that he was not unaccustomed to services such as I rendered him. There was that about him.
"You are looking at me," said Bertha, "as queerly as though well, as though you did not like the idea of missing your music lessons for a couple of days." "No, it is not that," replied Elly, smiling. "But ... no, I can't tell you." "What is it, though?" asked Bertha. "No, please, I really can't tell you." She hugged her aunt, almost imploringly.
Go up the morrow evening to his office and tell him you want a job on his paper so's you can start telling everybody the truth. And see what happens to you." John answered angrily. "You think you're having me on," he said, "but you're queerly mistaken. I will go, and we'll see what happens!" "That's what I'm bidding you do," Hinde continued. "And listen!
The man's eyes sparkled, and for a moment his frown lightened. "Good. You can hand it over." And his voice was almost friendly. Eve went into her bedroom and returned with a pile of bills. Will held out his hand for them, but she ignored it, and laid them on the table. He seized upon them greedily, glancing queerly at her as he pocketed them. "Good," he said thoughtfully, "now I can get busy."
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