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X THE TIME OF WAITING
Corresponding to the dark lines, showing at times in its trail, there were now distinctly to be seen on the half-visible sun itself, great, dark belts.
From time to time, the noise of dropping particles, behind in the room, came dully to my ears.
That night, I slept in a bed; the first time for two nights.
One day Madame Sadi Carnot sat a long time with me.
He shot several times at Rambouillet with Grevy, who was an excellent shot, and his shooting breakfasts were very pleasant.
We had reached Ardrahan the previous night, sleeping there in rooms hired at the village post office, and leaving in good time on the following morning, clinging insecurely to one of the typical jaunting cars.
The stimulus of facing an appreciative audience would spur him on time after time, and then, late at night, he would write affectionate letters giving details of "the house," etc., but which are painful to see if one notices the constant droop of the words and of the lines across the page.
'Soon we shall haf many more times as that.
I tried, with more success, to beguile the time by making notes in my journal; and after having devoted about an hour to this object, I returned to the telescope, and now took occasion to examine the figure of the earth near the Poles, with a view of discovering whether its form favoured Captain Symmes's theory of an aperture existing there; and I am convinced that that ingenious gentleman is mistaken.
I met them on the trip the time before this one.
But, generally, when looking for the first time from an all-embracing standpoint like this, the inexperienced observer is oppressed by the incomprehensible grandeur, variety, and abundance of the mountains rising shoulder to shoulder beyond the reach of vision; and it is only after they have been studied one by one, long and lovingly, that their far-reaching harmonies become manifest.
Madame de B. must have said 'Waddington' twenty times during my rather short visit."
We worked hard again; again the master returned at night to his vessel, this time without a word to any of us; again the men, drugged by toil, turned in early and slept like the dead.
God, Thou knowest, Thou must know, that death is better, aye, better a thousand times than This.
For two days, especially in the Lower School, the excitement continued steadily to increase, and small boys being seized in out-of-the-way corners were made to assert at one time that they would vote for Thurston, and at another that they would vote for Parkes or Fielding, and so, in order to escape with a whole skin, were forced to commit perjury at least a dozen times between the hours of breakfast and tea.
I didn't offer any opinion on the subject; I didn't say a word to him, treatin' him all the time like a gentleman, but kept pullin' for the shore.
(Our colleague Waddington, contrary to his nature, has quite lost his head this time over the Tunis question.)
XII THE SUBTERRANEAN PIT Another week came and went, during which I spent a great deal of my time about the Pit mouth.
Time out of mind the shop had belonged to the Cornuberts.
It is serpentine in its course most of the way, and where the Nordenskiold joins it is very crooked, running several times under a hill, named by Schwatka Tantalus Butte, and in other places leaving it, for a distance of eight miles.
He made his usual time into Fort Laramie, which was the end of his run.
It was not until I had meditated upon the matter, for some considerable time, that I fully realized that the extraordinary space of time through which it had stood, was sufficient to have utterly pulverized the very stones of which it was built, had they been taken from any earthly quarry.
" "Yet a notch it is, forsooth, and how shall my heart go light and my soul clean until I have a belt with notches not one?" "Belike thou hast forgot some of the lives thou didst save, Rogermine thou didst save four times within the battle, I mind me" "Nay, 'twas but twice, Giles.
Now she could work full time among the Ibibios.