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I'm sure as sure we shall find one, some day, 'cause, you see, I put it in my prayers now, at the end, you know. I say: 'An' please help me an' my Uncle Porges to find a fortune when the Money Moon comes, a big one, world without end Amen! So you see, it's all right, an' we're just waiting till the Money Moon comes, aren't we, Uncle Porges?"
"The first thing Mr Handstone said, was, that my chest was too big; and the next thing he said, was, `tell the carpenter I want him.
Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda on the reindeer and away he sped. 'Oh, I have left my gloves and boots behind! cried Gerda. She missed them in the piercing cold, but the reindeer did not dare to stop. On he ran till he came to the bush with red berries. Then he set Gerda down and kissed her mouth, and great big tears ran down his cheeks, and then he ran back.
Joe found himself frowning. He began to see how really big a job it was to get a Space Platform even ready to take off for a journey that in theory should last forever.
The woman's big round eyes, which were so obnoxious to her mistress, filled with tears as she accepted her discharge. And Mrs. Ogilvie, descending the broad staircase of the house with her air of magnificence, her jewels, and her red hair, rapped her fan suddenly and sharply on the palm of her hand, so that the delicate tortoise-shell sticks were broken.
There were huge battleships, splendid cruisers, and gunboats that could go into shallower waters than the large ships. There were also monitors immense fighting machines with decks but a little height above the water and big guns in circular turrets. Then there were torpedo boats very swift vessels armed with deadly torpedoes, any one of which could sink the largest ship afloat.
He took out the green-eyed joss, set it tenderly upon a corner of the table, and closed the cupboard door. With a piece of chamois leather, which he sometimes dipped into a little square tin, he began to polish the hideous figure. Monte Irvin raised his head and stared dully at Margaret Halley. It was very quiet in the library of the big old-fashioned house at Prince's Gate.
I think, Fuller, that you might call in the engineers of all the big aircraft and machine tool manufacturers and fabricators, and have them ready to start work at once when the plans are finally drawn up. You'd better get in touch with the Venerian producers, too. Those new works in Sorthol, Kaxor, will certainly be able to help a lot.
When at last they returned to the living room Leland glanced curiously at Wayne. He was sitting with Wanda upon the sofa under the big wall lamp, examining her pictures. Garth approached the sofa abruptly. "We'd better be hitting the trail, Wayne, hadn't we?" he asked. "It's nearly ten o'clock and you remember it's six miles to bed."
He found himself at a loss in the big house which seemed very empty. There was not a sound in it but the ticking of the clock and, upstairs, Helen's movements, which were few and quiet.
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