Though the presence of her husband was a strange and long unwonted occurrence there, at such an hour, and though she felt the strangeness of the visit, the power of the opiate overwhelmed her so, that she could only see this apparition gliding slowly back and forward before her, with the passive wonder and curiosity with which one awaits the issue of an interesting dream.

But he found such strangeness in these that his memory was put to prodigious feats of reconstruction ere it could make them seemly as of yore.

The relief was so sudden, that for an instant he forgot the strangeness of her declaration.

He looked about the familiar street of Hooker's Bend, the old trees over the pavement, the shabby village houses, and it all held a strangeness when thus juxtaposed to the thought of Nazareth nineteen hundred years before.

He did not realize the strangeness of his question until their eyes met.

His servant, a quick, silent man, noticed the strangeness of his manner, and like a wise servant only betrayed the result of his observation by a readier service, a quicker hand, a quieter motion.

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Yet this appears actually to have been his condition at one timebut let me quote the entry in his own words, which need no comments of mine to heighten their strangeness.

Fenwick stood still, gave himself up to the possessionlet it hold himfelt the strangeness and the peril of itthen, suddenly, wrenched himself free.

When Polwarth had thus an opportunity of reading Juliet's countenance, it was not wearing its usual expression: the ferment set at work in her mind by the curate's sermon had intensified the strangeness of it, even to something almost of definement; and it so arrested him that after the ponies had darted away like birds, he stood for a whole minute in the spot and posture in which they had left him.

She was a wise woman, and knew the strangeness of the world.

But would it be easy to match the strangeness of a philosopher and a man of genius gravely writing this down as a reasonnot why, at the interval of centuries, a delusion should grow upbut why, on the very morrow of a crucifixion and burial, the disciples should have believed that all the dreadful work they had seen a day or two before was in very fact and reality reversed?

It was his way of measuring the beautiful strangeness of her.

[Illustration: FULL OF ZEST FOR THE MEASURE AS ANY YOUTH] When she looked into the little cracked mirror that night, she saw a strange new face and figure; and, when she entered the ballroom, she felt that others noted the same strangeness, for many looked at her until she felt her cheeks burn.

This morning I observed a strangeness in George's behavior, when he was requested to put up his microscope, and assist in laying the cloth, because John was out, and he was aware that Hannah had sprained her foot, and could not walk up and down stairs.

She assured him of her obedience in this point, and added, that she could do it without any difficulty; for tho' she was a lady who had many good qualities, and one for whom she once had a friendship, yet the taking upon her to forward her brother's designs had occasioned a strangeness between them, which had already more than half anticipated his commands.

But mostly she was preoccupied with pondering the strangeness of it, that he who seemed so brilliant and brave a figure of the great world should, according to his own confession, have risen from beginnings as lowly as her own.

The report was attacked, and I defended it in several letters published in a Butler paperanonymouslyand this was my first appearance in print, except a short letter published by George D. Prentiss, in the Louisville Journal, of which I remember nothing, save the strangeness of seeing my thoughts in print.

But Telemachus, seeing her strangeness, blamed her, and called her an ungentle and tyrannous mother!

What this mode was we shall see presently, for I shall be justified in setting forth its strangeness, even absurdity, by the fact that Dr. Donne was the dear friend of George Herbert, and had much to do with the formation of his poetic habits.

And as I looked out of the window and watched the vulgar blackbirds, with toes turned in, boring out their worms, I realized sharply that even they, as indeed everything large and small in the house and grounds, shared this strangeness, and were twisted out of normal appearance because of it.

Why watch me thus? You cannot knowand yet you know too much I tell you, nurse, pain's comfort, when the flesh Aches with the aching soul in harmony, And even in woe, we are one: the heart must speak Its passion's strangeness in strange symbols out, Or boil, till it bursts inly.

"If to feel when I am with him that I have reached my home; if to suffer a strangeness even with myself, and to feel less familiar with myself than with him, is to love, then I love him, Honora.

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

Even Tabitha admitted a strangeness about the house, but, confident in her piety and virtue, took no heed of it, her mind being fully employed in another direction.