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"I would read you a lecture now, sir," she said; "but will reserve it, for here is a letter that may interest you." It did indeed interest all three of them, as they sat together that afternoon in the sunshine of Milly's boudoir, for it was a long and well-written epistle from old Molly Donaldson.
Soon after, he was invited to lecture before some literary society, I think in Bloomington. The interest he had felt in the study convinced him that the subject would interest others, and he therefore prepared and delivered his lecture on The Age of Different Inventions. 'Of course, he added, 'I could not after that forget the order or time of such discoveries and inventions."
"Very well," said Katy, extremely gratified, "what am I to say?" "We'll compose a speech for you," replied Rose, "sugar your voice, Katy, and, whatever you do, stand up straight. Don't crook over, as if you thought you were tall. It's a bad trick you have, child, and I'm always sorry to see it," concluded Rose, with the air of a wise mamma giving a lecture.
The luminous outburst by which they became visible was explained by Sir William Huggins, in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, May 13, 1892, on the tidal theory of Klinkerfues and Wilsing.
They had only seemed on that side because other people were so utterly alien to it, and because of their friendship with the really zealous Mrs. Duncombe. The sanitary cause which had become mixed with it was, however, brought strongly before their minds by Mrs. Tallboys' final lecture, at which she impressed on the ladies' minds with great vehemence that here they might lead the way.
At length he began his little lecture, for all the world as though this were one of his classes at the University, as though there were at stake some matter of chemical reaction. "I need not tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that this is a highly scientific age in which we live." His tones were leisurely, businesslike, cool.
You first," he said, pointing to Janet. "I think you are a kind of hermit," she said at last. "Right," he said. "But that's not enough. What do I do? You," he added, pointing to Mary, "what do you think I do?" "Perhaps you lecture," said Mary, "or preach. No, I don't think you preach. I think very likely you speak to villagers about politics tariff reform and things like that."
"I have only got to work and keep quiet, and the Subby will think I am as like a machine as he is." "And you have made up your mind to work?" "I mean to do a reasonable amount," I replied cautiously. "It is most awfully difficult to work. I have done precious little, and I went fast asleep at a lecture the other morning." "What was it about?" "Logic." "Oh, that's nothing," I assured him.
The beginning of the lecture was set for eight o'clock, and it was now past the hour, for he had been detained in the city by the joint debate between Emmet and Judge Swigart, put at half past five that the workingmen might have an opportunity to attend.
Mordaunt's answering note reached her late in the afternoon just before she set forth for her ride in the Park with Jack. "My love to your Aunt Philippa, and I am just off to Paris for the inside of a week. I shall be back for your cousin's wedding. Ask her to reserve her lecture till then. Our friend Bertrand sends his amitiés. I send nothing, for you have it all. "Yours, TREVOR."
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