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Thus, after a succession of hypotheses and failures, they finally succeeded. From the end of the sixteenth century there was offered the possibility of communicating at a distance by means of electricity. But the author considered it impossible "in the absence of lovers having such ability." Mechanical inventions that fail correspond to erroneous or unverified scientific hypotheses.
She spoke of her efforts to obey his wishes, and how heartsick she was with her failures, and of the dissatisfaction which he showed.
He foiled you, papa, in your effort to obtain a clue concerning Gustave's identity; and he made me appear a fool in arranging that little comedy at the Hotel de Mariembourg. His diligence has been wonderful. He has hitherto been in advance of us everywhere, and this fact explains the failures that have attended all my efforts. Here we arrive before him.
This phrase occurs monotonously often, a fact of which I am not unaware, but I don't know how to obviate it. While most of my ventures have been failures, as the world reckons failure, yet they have all been a source of satisfaction to me. Some day I feel that I shall find a life-work that will be to my liking and have a salutary effect upon me mentally and physically.
Since, years ago now, as the Gray Seal, he had begun to work with HER, that unknown, mysterious accomplice of his, and the police, stung to madness both by the virulent and constant attacks of the press and by the humiliating prod of their own failures, sought daily, high and low, with every resource at their command, for the Gray Seal, he had never been in quite so strange and perilous a plight as he found himself at that moment.
Here, leading me to a window, he showed me a very different view from the sunlit landscape and garden I had lately looked upon, -a dismal square of rank grass in which stood a number of black crosses. "These do not mark deaths," he said "but failures!
The construction of a suitable sledge was the first difficulty to be surmounted, and many were the dismal failures and break-neck catastrophes which preceded what we considered a safe and successful vehicle. We nearly broke our necks more than once, and I look back now with amazement to our fool-hardiness.
These demands of prejudice and folly can never be satisfied; and therefore many of the imputations which learning suffers from disappointed ignorance, are without reproach. But there are some failures, to which men of study are peculiarly exposed. Every condition has its disadvantages.
A victim of politics, he had been foolish enough to quit Arras and his business there as a solicitor, in order to seek triumph in Paris with his wife and daughters, whose menial he had then become a menial dismayed by the constant rebuffs and failures which his mediocrity brought upon him.
"This sort of thing requires practice," he muttered. "Here, Bert, you're cleverer with your fingers than I. You take it, and I'll dictate." Between them, after several failures, they produced a fair copy of the following: "Mr. Alden Honeywell will choose between making explanation to the post-office authorities or calling at 3:30 P. m. to-morrow on A. Jones, Ad-Visor, Astor Court Temple."
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