view of her now, of course, was side-on and rather queer; but when she strode, as before, to the front of the stage it seemed to me her step was lighter

I thought I had my queer desires cribbed and chilled and chastened.

There was a look on her face - it was not ambiguous at all now - a look of mingled shock, and nervousness, and embarrassment or shame.

I had that sensation again, that there had grown a lantern or a beacon inside me.

The man had looked like Walter; I had pleasured him, in some queer way, for Kitty’s sake;

was my rival, of sorts; but in some queer way it was almost easier

Indeed, I seemed to want her more and more, the further into boyishness I ventured.

these men who thought I was like them, like that — well, that was not to be pestered; it was to be, in some queer way, revenged.

coins and canes and flowers, there was a private language, in which we held an endless, delicate exchange of which the crowd knew nothing. This was a language not of the tongue but of the body,