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The difficulty with these models was that of securing a correct angle for launching; Langley records how, on launching one machine, it rose so rapidly that it attained an angle of sixty degrees and then did a tail slide into the water with its engines working at full speed, after advancing nearly forty feet and remaining in the air for about three seconds.
Now, what had this speech to do with the question of whether the Dictator was likely or was not likely to ask Helena Langley to marry him? Nothing at all, so far as an outer observer might see. But it had a good deal to do with the realities of the situation for Hamilton and Dolores.
The Duke of York and Lord Richard of Conisborough were riding home to Langley. The brothers were very silent; Richard because he was sad and anxious, Edward because he was vexed and sullen. They had just heard of their sister's arrest.
'Call me Dick Langley, she said, 'and talk to me as if I were a boy, and then perhaps you can tell me all you mean and all you want to do. I am tired of this perpetual difficulty. 'It wouldn't help in the least, the Dictator said, 'if I were to call you Dick Langley. You would still be Helena Langley.
The interpreter was a stout, tall, dignified man of about thirty-five, with a great deal of self-assertion, and a dash of humour expressed in his countenance. "Ali," said Mrs Langley, "you are aware that Sidi Omar is to be married to-morrow. I have been invited to the wedding, but have stupidly forgotten the hour at which I was asked to see the bride dressed.
Two days after the events narrated in the last chapter, Mrs Langley, being seated on her favourite couch in the court under the small banana-tree, sent Zubby into the garden to command the attendance of Ted Flaggan.
The fact of his being a man of extremely few words was enough to account for the friendship which existed between him and the garrulous Langley. Whitson was known to be a dead shot with the revolver.
This was about one-third more than had been secured by Maxim or Langley. Langley had made his last attempt with the 'aerodrome, and his splendid failure but a few days before the brothers made their first attempt at power-driven aeroplane flight.
"Married? to Sir Frederick Langley? and this night? It must not cannot shall not be." "It MUST be, Mr. Ratcliff, or my father is ruined." "Ah! I understand," answered Ratcliffe; "and you have sacrificed yourself to save him who But let the virtue of the child atone for the faults of the father it is no time to rake them up. What CAN be done?
It was easy at that earlier and brighter and more self-confident hour to crumple up a telegram and make nothing of it; but now Soame Rivers could only curse himself for his levity and his folly. What would Helena Langley say to him? Was there anything he could do to retrieve his position? Only one thing occurred to him.