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This latter being of full model, although not resembling the swollen or bolster-like form of many imitations of the master, requires special attention with regard to fitting in of the fresh wood or core. The fresh wood must not be bent, or the matching of the grain with the old material will be impossible, and the repair when completed will be strikingly conspicuous.
And, since the piece itself was rigidly mounted to its frame, and the frame to the ship, the giant bulk of five million cubic feet of water, thirty-two million pounds of mass; and the matching mass-bulk of the ship itself, responded to the full mosquito-sized strength of the six hundred forty pound thrust, and was moved a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a centimeter in the first second; a fraction of a fraction in the second; a fraction....
She was shorter than Patrick but seemed to be looking down at him. "This is a quiet house." "Yes, ma'am." "No smoking." "Yes, ma'am." She opened the door and showed him a corner room with a matching bed and bureau and a small rocking chair. "Bathroom down the hall." He paid for a week and signed the guest register. "O'Shaunessy?" "Yes." She handed him two keys. "I lock the front door after dark."
"You wished, sir, to speak with me?" she inquired, bowing gracefully. "Madame," replied M. Tabaret, "I am a friend of Noel Gerdy's, I may say his best friend, and " "Pray sit down, sir," interrupted the young woman. She placed herself on a sofa, just showing the tips of her little feet encased in slippers matching her dressing-gown, while the old man sat down in a chair.
But matching the rival step for step was the "Boss," while "Red" brought up the rear in a tidy fashion. "Swell place, ain't it?" demanded the rival, taking no notice of Val or Jeems. "Make yourselves to home, boys; the place is yours." Val gripped the arm of his chair. Sam, Rupert, Holmes they were all beyond call. It was left to him to meet this unbelievable invasion alone.
Tom could hardly restrain his impatience until Mr. Boylan had gone. The young inventor had half a notion to produce the other button, matching the one he had just pulled off his visitor's coat, and tell where he had found it. But he held himself back. He wanted to talk first to Ned. And, when his chum came in, Tom cried: "Ned, what do you think? I know who had my airship!"
It was to take place at Matching, and none would be present but they who were staying in the house, or who lived around, such as tenants and dependants. Four clergymen united their forces to tie Isabel to her husband, one of whom was a bishop, one a canon, and the two others royal chaplains; but there was only to be the Vicar of the parish at Matching.
I should wish you to choose diamonds of moderate size, but not small; worth, on an average, forty or fifty pounds apiece, we'll say." "I shall have to be very particular about matching them in colour," said Mr. Hartgold, "as they're for a necklace." The banker shrugged his shoulders. "Don't trouble yourself about the necklace," he said, rather impatiently.
The wild enthusiasm of the hand-to-hand conflict, the matching of skill against skill and of strength against strength, was an intense pleasure to him, and his superiority in the tactics of the battle-field, in the planning and management of a fight, or even of a series of attacks or defences, a march or a retreat, placed him easily in the front rank of commanders in an age when the larger strategy of the highest order of generalship had little place.
Dick was a lubber and, I believed then, though I had afterwards proof to the contrary, a coward; and matching myself against him I knew I would do the king's navy more credit than he. But I kept my thought to myself and next day made a sad bungle, I remember, of my construe of Thucydides' account of the sea fight at Salamis. So months passed away.
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