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Palliser himself was aware of this, and upon the whole did not wonder at it in entirely unimaginative persons of extremely sober lives. In fact, he had begun by giving them some warning as to what they might expect in the way of unusualness. "You will, no doubt, think what I am about to tell you absurd and incredible," he had prefaced his statements.
Some one, alone under the cathedral arches of the forest, was softly chanting the words of the simple, familiar hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and, impelled by the unusualness of the thing at such an hour and in such a place, Donald moved quietly forward until the solitary singer was in view. It was Rose.
"She is living to-day, and she must not pass through this life without gathering anything from it." "This life," she put it, as if I had passed through others before, and might pass through others again. That was always her way of speaking, and she seemed quite unconscious of any unusualness in it. "You are a wise woman, Jean," Angus said, looking long at her grave face. "A wise woman."
Next, Daylight surmised that he might be touched with religion; but, quest about as he would, in a conversation covering the most divergent topics, he could find no hint of queerness or unusualness. So it was, when between them they had washed and wiped the dishes and put them away, and had settled down to a comfortable smoke, that Daylight put his question. "Look here, Ferguson.
He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised. Strickland was not, I should say, a man of great intelligence, and his views on painting were by no means out of the ordinary.
There have to be banns and so on, don't there? The third time of asking that brings it to the eighteenth of December. What about the nineteenth, Rhoda? That's a Monday." "Really, Peter ..." Rhoda blushed more than ever. "That seems awfully soon." "Well," said Peter, blind to the unusualness of such a discussion at the dinner-table, "the sooner the better, don't you think?
The unusualness of a fancy ball given in the middle of summer, and the perfection to which his customer carried the art of disguise, astonished the hairdresser so much that his attention was immediately attracted by the newspaper articles upon "The Mystery of the Imperial Hotel," as the affair was called.
The unusualness of the situation a young woman, who evidently stood for many things and powers desirable, employing labourers and seeming to know what she intended them to do was a thing not easy to get over, or be come accustomed to. But there she was, as easy and well mannered as you please and with gentlefolks' ways, though, as an American, such finish could scarcely be expected from her.
This idea satisfied the pretty lady, who seemed to find great pleasure in the range of our exhibits, our designs and our workrooms, and when her order was completed, she was triumphantly satisfied with its beauty and unusualness. The scattered petals were true portraits done from nature, and looked as though they could be shaken off at any minute.
"Considering the unusualness of our . . . of the expedition, we'd be better served by a steward who is more of a fool. Another point, which I'd esteem a real favour from you, is not to forget that you haven't put a red copper more into this trip than I have " "And where'd either of you be, if it wasn't for me with my knowledge of the sea?" the captain demanded aggrievedly.
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