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I wish I had that chance!" exclaimed Larson. "I'm sure, with my mercury balancer I could " "There you go again!" cried Captain Grantly. "I tell you your idea is all wrong about that balancer! Wing warping is the only proper way." "But that isn't automatic, and what is needed is an automatic balancer or equilibrizer," insisted the lieutenant. "Well, we won't discuss it now," went on the captain.
That would have been a mess! I'm sure you can handle the balancer without Perkins. Poor old Perk! And Hoskins and the others. All gone, by God! All wiped out! Only me and you left, sir!" He laughed hysterically. "Bats in his belfry!" thought Bennie. "Something hit him!" Slowly it came over him that the half-stunned creature thought that he, Bennie Hooker, was Pax, the Master of the World!
Sir the noise that you make in literature by your distinguished talent I also made in my day in the manner that my means permitted me I began in 1804 under the auspices of the celebrated Madame Saqui and bore off palms and left memories in the annals of the tight-rope and coregrafie balancer in all countries where I have been there appreciated by generals and other officers of the Empire by whom I have been solicited up to an advanced age so that wives of prefects and ministers could not have been complimented about it I have read your distinguished works notably Madame Bovarie of which I think I am capable of being a model to you when she breaks the chains of her feet to go where her heart calls her.
"Do you think that the two of us can fly the Chimaera south again?" he asked, inspecting the map. "Why not?" answered Atterbury. "The balancer is working better now and doesn't take much attention and you can lay the course and manage the landing. I was going to put a fresh uranium cylinder in the tractor this morning but I forgot."
Thus a mechanical balancer had been arranged, so that the pilot need never bother himself as to whether a stiff gale were blowing or not, since practically nothing could upset his craft. "It looks to me as if you had a good idea there, Bud," said Hugh; "and unless somebody's been ahead of you in the field, it ought to make you famous as an inventor.
And Fortune had willed that, when flushed with triumph, he should have to deal with a timorous time-server. It is the curse of a policy of keeping up a dainty balance in a hurricane that it unmans the balancer, until at last the peacemaker resembles a juggler.
Here," and he pointed to the others, "is Signor Luigi Fabiani, the world's greatest acrobat; there Signora Fabiani, world famous as a juggler and hand balancer; Signorina Stella Fabiani, the child wonder of the twentieth century."
"Come and let's see my father," suggested the girl, presently, "he'll want to know about this. It may mean a complete change of our plans." "You'll have to change 'em to beat the Golden Butterfly," muttered Fanning; "if only those drawings hadn't been lost we'd have had that balancer, and it looks to me as if we might need it before we get to Cape Charles." "Why?" "The wind's freshening.
That self-sufficient idiot will be none the wiser." But the plague one calls Honour kept shoving in all manner of objections. By Jove, how a rational-minded cad would have scored there! In the long run Honour, confound it, got a bit of a balancer which helped it to win.
Je suis un inventeur Anglais. Mon nom est Butteridge. Beh. oo. teh. teh. eh. arr. I. deh. geh. eh. J'avais ici pour vendre le secret de le flying-machine. Comprenez? Vendre pour l'argent tout suite, l'argent en main. Comprenez? C'est le machine a jouer dans l'air. Comprenez? C'est le machine a faire l'oiseau. Comprenez? Balancer? Oui, exactement! Battir l'oiseau en fait, a son propre jeu.
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