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You must come if I have to carry you to your horse and tie you to the saddle. You will not force me to put that indignity upon you. To the horses, then! Come!" For answer she called her brother loudly by his name. Brande immediately appeared at the door of his laboratory, and when he perceived from whom the call had come he joined us. "Herbert," said Natalie, "our friend is deserting us.
As it stands, it is neither academic nor practical." Brande looked at me earnestly for a moment, and then said gravely: "The academic value of the explanation will be shown to you if you will join a society I have founded; and its practicalness will soon be made plain whether you join or not." "What do you call this club of yours?" I asked. "We do not call it a club.
Nevertheless, if I failed eventually to serve her, I could at least do my best. It was clear that I must stand by Natalie Brande. While I was thus reflecting, the following conversation took place between Brande and Grey. I found a note of it in a diary which Brande kept desultorily. He wrote this up so irregularly no continuous information can be gleaned from it as to his life.
She was perceptibly taller than her friend, and of fuller figure. In consequence, she looked, in my opinion, to even less advantage in her eccentric costume, or rational dress, than did Miss Brande. "Rationally dressed! Oh, yes. I know the divided skirt, but " Miss Metford interrupted me. "Do you call the divided skirt atrocity rational dress?" she asked pointedly.
This man Brande was young in years, but middle-aged in the expression of his pale, intellectual face, and old if age be synonymous with knowledge in his ideas. His knowledge, indeed, was so exhaustive that the scientific pleasantries to which he was prone could always be justified, dialectically at least, by him when he was contradicted. Those who knew him well did not argue with him.
What takes him to Labrador?" "The same purpose which takes us to the Arafura Sea," Brande answered, and passed on. Presently there was a slight stir amongst the people, and the word was passed round that Brande was about to undertake some interesting experiment for the amusement of his guests.
Brande left no money. His formula for the transmutation of metals is unintelligible to me. I can make no use of it. Edith Metford remains my friend. To part utterly after what we have undergone together is beyond our strength. But between us there is a nameless shadow, reminiscent of that awful night in the Arafura Sea, when death came very near to us.
The finer subtleties of the brain do not bear well the daylight of language. Brande drew her back and whispered to her. Then the sweet face, now slightly flushed, was turned to me again. "Oh, thank you for that pretty thought," she said with a pleasant smile. "You are too flattering. The 'queen of flowers' is very true, but the 'queen of women! Oh, no!"
Brande, in his recent Lecture on Vegetable Chemistry, says, "Salt has been very much extolled for a manure; I believe that a great deal more has been said of it than it deserves; it certainly destroys insects, but I do not believe what has been said of its value.
At this the girl stamped her foot passionately on the ground and burst into tears. Nor would she permit any of the slight caresses I offered. I thought her old caprices were returning. She flung my arm rudely from her and left me bewildered. My memory does not serve me well in the scenes which immediately preceded the closing of the drama in which Brande was chief actor.
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