Word: curious
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...curious look is on his face...
...their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope to their defects, and lays bare the selfish motives and small machinery by which their policy has been made active and for a time, successful. Your politic man is a curiosity; it is as curious to watch his manoeuvres as it is to observe the ever-changing forms and colors of the kaleidoscope or to note the webbings in a piece of lace. There is a transparency about some of his ill-concealed motives, which makes his success the more wonderful; for people...
SCENE: THE LIBRARY. (Curious Freshman removes a catalogue-card from its proper place...
...CURIOUS FRESH. But I suppose it's no matter, as I did it insensibly...
...Curious Freshman faints...