911 To A.B.M. Fellow-Sherlockian CONTENTS I A CONNOISSEUR'S VAGARY II

A CONNOISSEUR'S VAGARY "Hello!"

Thus fairly adrift and kept adrift from the main purpose, there is no vagary impossible to them,churches in which there is no hearing, hospitals contrived to develop disease, museums of tinder, libraries impossible to light or warm.

But mad I was and many a vagary my imagination played with me,enough to make a volume, if all were told.

From the instant I looked upon these two I felt convinced that, through some strange vagary of fate, we were destined to know more of each other; that our life lines were ordained to touch, and become entangled, somewhere in that mystery of the Western World to which I had been condemned.

That, as Lanyard had suspected all along, the Monk party had been visited upon the Château de Montalais through no vagary of chance whatever but as part of a deliberate design whose ulterior motive had transpired only with the disappearance of the jewelsto Dupont's vast but understandable vexation of spirit.

It was impossible, of course, even if one had understood their language, to find out what notions they attached to it all; and all I could do, on looking at these heathen idol chapels, in the midst of a Christian and civilised land, was to ponder, in sadness and astonishment, over a puzzle as yet to me inexplicable; namely, how human beings first got into their heads the vagary of worshipping images.

vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.

conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey^, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest^, geste^, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare.

Caprice N. caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey^, whimwham^; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade

Angry the king,yet laughing-half to view The strangeness and vagary of the feat: Laughing indeed!

So friendly, yet so calm did she seem through all their interview, that Mr. Bernard could only look back upon her manifestation of feeling towards him on their walk from the school as a vagary of a mind laboring under some unnatural excitement, and wholly at variance with the true character of Elsie Venner, as he saw her before him in her subdued, yet singular beauty.

Surely you do not mean to persist in that mulish vagary?

Caelius, always attracted by novelty, left Cicero and attached himself to Catiline; and for this vagary, as well as for his own want of success in controlling his pupil, Cicero rather awkwardly and amusingly apologises in the early chapters of his speech in his defence.

It may be a vagary of Hagar's half-crazed brain.

It is a strange sort of a vagary you have taken, to stand in your own light, and disoblige all your friends.

But perhaps the most extraordinary vagary is the Yankee notion that service is degrading; the consequence of which is that you very rarely see a Yankee servant; and if by chance you find one on a farm, he insists on living and eating with the overseer.

It would be set down as the vagary of a disordered brain; nobody would entertain it for an instant.

At twenty years of age he was himself shut up six weeks in a madhouse, his imagination in a vagary.

In repose it was, perhaps, hard, because it shut so decisively; but often it screwed up provokingly at one side, as when she smiled, or was sorry, or for no particular reason; for she seemed unable to control this vagary, which was perhaps a little bit of babyhood that had forgotten to grow up with the rest of her.

That, too, at the outset, was a fantastic vagary in the opinion of thousands of solid and respectable farmers.

It was a delightful vagary of the imagination, which the morning light, looking in through the little checker-work window, gently dispelled.

Caprice, humor, vagary, whim.

The memory was too vivid, the details too practical, for a sleep-vagary.

Vagary of your fever.