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The mouth of the crucible is closed with a luting of clay, or otherwise, and the opening, d, made in the upper side of the crucible, near its extremity, comes entirely within the retort, and forms a passage for the zinc fumes from the retort chamber into the condensing chamber. The pipe, E, serves as a vent for the condensing chamber.
Thankfulness at the escape of his only, beloved child, rage with the Kaffirs who had tried to kill her, and extreme distress at the loss of most of his property all these conflicting emotions boiled together in his breast like antagonistic elements in a crucible. The resulting fumes were parti-coloured and overpowering. Here I may remark that he never did, poor man.
The enthusiast, who had passed away at last from the dreams of the Escorial into the land of shadows, had spent a lifetime, and melted the wealth of an empire; but universal monarchy had never come forth from his crucible. The French king, although possessed likewise of an almost boundless faculty for ambitious visions, was capable of distinguishing cloud-land from substantial empire.
Young Chandler has departed and so has Mary Blenkarn, and they are eventually to return as husband and wife; but Cyrus Blenkarn has been aroused from his reveries over the crucible and furnace, wherein he is striving to discover a lost secret in the potter's art that will make him both rich and famous, and he utters a prayer for vengeance upon these Chandlers, and he parts from them.
In all weighings after the first it is well to place the weights upon the balance-pan before removing the crucible from the desiccator.
We know Bernhardi's remorseless views taken from Treitschke and adopted by the whole German nation: "War is a fiery crucible, a terrible training school through which the world has grown better."
Perhaps it was still latent and would only hereafter find some outward expression for itself. It sometimes happens that physical likeness comes out only after death, mental not until late in life, and likeness of character in the midst of unlikeness is revealed usually only in the crucible of events.
Remove the burner, and tip the crucible until the fused mass flows nearly to its mouth. Hold it in that position until the mass has solidified. When cold, the material may usually be detached in a lump by tapping the crucible or gently pressing it near its upper edge.
At last, however, I prevailed upon him to give me a piece of his precious stone a piece no larger than a grain of rape seed.... He bid me take half an ounce of lead ... and melt it in the crucible; for the Medicine would certainly not tinge more of the base metal than it was sufficient for.... He promised to return at nine o'clock the next morning.... But at the stated hour on the following day he did not make his appearance; in his stead, however, there came, a few hours later, a stranger, who told me that his friend the artist was unavoidably detained, but that he would call at three o'clock in the afternoon.
"No sooner," says he, "has one set of varying elements been fused together, than another stream has been poured into the crucible." What was true of New York two hundred years ago is true to-day of the country of which it is the gateway. In dealing with the surplus that remains, we shall have to rely first and foremost on the public school. Of that I shall speak hereafter.
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