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It had a single propeller revolving in the centre behind the wings and was fitted with an undercarriage incorporated in the machine. The other chief French experimenters at this period were the Voisin Freres, whose first two machines identical in form were sold to Delagrange and H. Farman, which has sometimes caused confusion, the two purchasers being credited with the design they bought.
He is a young man; let him rub off his corners!" Heiberg is credited with having replied: "Very true! Let him! but not in my drawing-room! That is not a place where people may rub anything off." Heiberg's wife, on the other hand, admired him exceedingly, and was undoubtedly very much fascinated by him. In a circle of younger people, Bjoernson was a better talker than conversationalist.
What is much more likely about his education for education he had, although not of the superior kind with which he has been credited is that in the blank, sunny time of his childhood he was sent to one of the excellent schools established by the weavers in their own quarter, and that there or afterwards he came under some influence, both religious and learned, which stamped him the practical visionary that he remained throughout his life.
He had no doubt that he was a favorite with every circle and wanted in every group, and the young ladies did seem to get a great deal of entertainment out of him. He was not like the young man in the Scriptures except that he was credited with having great possessions. No, the principal occupation at Bar Harbor was not fishing in the house.
But, if she is ecclesiastically forgotten, it must be remembered that her position receives a shy and timid recognition from society. She is credited with a quasi-clerical character, and regarded as having received a sort of semi-ordination.
In a word, he was not one whose appearance would provoke a second glance or who would be credited with taking an important part in anything that might be in progress. But for his job these very peculiarities were among his chief assets.
It was during this visit that the Court credited him with seeing I think, on the Friday before the Feast of the Virgin the Great Huntsman; and even went so far as to specify the part of the forest in which he came upon it, and the form that of a gigantic black horseman, surrounded by hounds which it assumed The spectre had not been seen since the year 1598; nevertheless, the story spread widely, those who whispered it citing in its support not only the remarkable agitation into which the Queen fell publicly on the evening of that day, but also some strange particulars that attended the King's return from the forest; and, being taken up and repeated, and confirmed, as many thought, by the unhappy sequence of his death, the fable found a little later almost universal credence, so that it may now be found even in books.
The middle class, representing nine and two tenths per cent of the population, is credited with twelve per cent of the total wealth, the rich and middle classes, together, representing ten and six tenths per cent of the population, having therefore eighty-two per cent of the total wealth, leaving to the working class, which constituted eighty-nine and four tenths of the nation, but eighteen per cent of the wealth, to share among them."
He was often baffled by the ways of his friends, but he was so happy in loving them that he credited them with all that disturbed and made him sad with them, so as to persuade himself that he was as much loved by them as he loved them himself. A word or an affectionate look plunged him in delight. Sometimes he was so bowled over by it that he would burst into tears.
To very few French novelists to few even of those who are generally credited with a much softer mould and a much purer morality than Balzac is popularly supposed to have been able to boast would inconstancy to a mistress have seemed a fault which could be reasonably punished, which could be even reasonably represented as having been punished in fact, by the refusal of an honest girl's love in the first place.
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