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It might have a quare, bad apparance, rael mane; and long sorry I'd be for that. What 'ud you say, now?" He looked slowly round the flickering room, but met with no response from old or young; all silent, from his mother, asleep in her elbow-chair by the hearth, to his grandson Nicholas, very wide awake, in a nook beyond her.
Ye could have heard him swearin' a mile away, but ut's not that same curtain at all, at all. 'Tis mighty quare."
Graham was a clever, broadly educated man, who worked out many astronomical instruments in addition to his clockmaking. When you view either his handiwork or that of Tompion, you will see the product of master craftsmen. And in the meantime don't forget Daniel Quare, Samuel Knibb, or Ahasuerus Fromanteel, who although unhonored by stones in the Abbey, are well worthy of being remembered."
Then lifting on high a crucifix, he said, "Come with me, and let us walk in solemn procession to the altar, singing the praises of our God." The monks, with the instinctive habit of obedience, fell into procession behind their leader, whose voice, clear and strong, was heard raising the Psalm, "Quare fremunt gentes": "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
"All he wanted ter know 'bout a nigger wuz jes his name, an' dey say he could tell straight away when an' whar he wuz born, whar he'd done lived, an' all 'bout him. He war a powerful man in der way ob names, shore. Some on 'em wuz right quare, but den agin mos' all on 'em wuz right good, an' it war powerful handy hevin' no two on 'em alike.
"It's a quare world, sir, altogether." "There are many strange things in it certainly." "That's truth, sir; but the saison's favorable, thank God, and there's every prospect of a fine spring for puttin' down the crops." "You are a farmer, then; but why should you feel troubled about what you call a fine season for putting down the crops?"
The event is remembered with awe at Laraghmena, because in that wild March gloaming Con the Quare One had met Thady himself face to face stepping up the winding path, and had given him good evening, and asked him how he had got all dripping wet, just at the very time when the unlucky lad must have been lying drowned miles and miles from there, among the surges of Galway Bay.
"Deus meus, Deus meus, quare dereliquiste me," said his troubled eyes, while his lips muttered "Linintikan!" Vainly he coughed, fumbled at his shirt-bosom, stood first on one foot and then on the other, but found no answer. "Come now, what have we?" urged the professor, enjoying the effect of his reasoning. "Bibinka!" whispered Juanito Pelaez. "Bibinka!"
"Throth," returned the other, "you're a quare Jemmy an' so God bless you!" Having uttered these words, in an amicable and grateful spirit, our friend the pedlar bent his steps to the head inn of the next town being that of the assizes, where Mr. Travers, the agent, kept his office.
"By the powdbers, your honor, if any gintleman desarved to have his cows unmilked, it's yourself. But, as I said this minute, there's no end to the wickedness o' the people, so there's not, although the Catechiz is against them; for, says it, 'there is but one Faith, one Church, an' one Baptism. Now, sir, isn't it quare that people, wid sich words in the book afore them, won't be guided by it?
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