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Varick looked at his young guest with a good deal of gratitude. He had never numbered himself among the girl's admirers. To him Bubbles was like a caricature of her aunt. But now he told himself that there was something to say, after all, for this queer younger generation who dare everything! He supposed that Bubbles was going to entertain them with a clever exhibition of brilliant acting.
It had been agreed that Bubbles, having of the two the more feminine adaptabilities of voice, should do the talking. "Grand Central," he said. Nevertheless she was weakly good-natured in such matters, and closing her book said: "Very well in here, John." A moment later the young person was shown into the living-room.
From each caldron there issued a stream of liquid metal of intense heat. There were numerous explosions as the air bubbles burst explosions almost like a battery in action. "So far so good!" exclaimed the manager, with a sigh of relief as the last of the melted stuff ran into the mould. "Now, when it cools, which won't be for some days, we'll see what we have."
"Don't hurt it," said Diamond. North Wind broke out in a little laugh like the breaking of silver bubbles, and was gone in a moment. Diamond saw for it was a starlit night, and the mass of hay was at a low ebb now the gleam of something vanishing down the stair, and, springing out of bed, dressed himself as fast as ever he could.
The temperature is simply perfect, if we are to believe our informant; the vegetation is of a primitive delicacy and beauty unequaled elsewhere; the fruits are fabulously abundant and of the most perfect flavor; the water bubbles forth from springs of crystal purity, and the flora is so lovely as to inspire the most indifferent beholder with delight.
Then the dark one: "Don't be scared of us. We couldn't hurt a fly if we wanted to. Who is it?" So he said: "It's only me just a boy. I found this hole swimmin' and come in to see what it was for." "It's only a boy," said the blond man. "He wouldn't hurt us," said the dark one. "Maybe you'll tell me what all this cellar work is for," said Bubbles. The dark man scratched his matted head.
Vessels essentially similar to the one I have described were navigating the Chinese seas and rivers when the fleets of Rome and Carthage were contesting the supremacy of the Mediterranean, and long before. Rome and Carthage, and many another mighty maritime power, have risen and passed away utterly, like bubbles, or dreams, but the Chinaman and his everlasting junk are still here.
The Senators were very tired, and it surely was a brain of bubbles that could indulge in comment upon the climax of the great finished chapter of the old Republic. North put on his hat and overcoat at once and left the Capitol.
Had he done so, he would have been startled and distressed, for he had already, with a shrewd medical man's judgment, "sized up" his fellow guest, and found him very much wanting. Thus not knowing or divining anything of the various human under-currents, save, perhaps, that he guessed Donnington to be in love with Bubbles, Dr. Panton went off to bed in a very cheerful and contented state of mind.
They are all alike and may be reduced to this type: "A Frenchman has made a discovery; some one else, a German, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving they both had made fools of themselves, mistaking bubbles of air for dark pigment under the microscope."
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