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In half an hour, all the ships were in space, and at a given signal, at ten-second intervals, they sprang into the superspeed, faster than light. For an instant, giant Mira ran and seemed distorted, as though seen through a porthole covered with running water, then steadied, curiously distorted. Faster than light they raced across the galaxy.
Certum quippe est ultra Nili fontes multos reperiri Nanos, qui tamen non cum Gruibus, sed cum Elephantis perpetuum gerant bellum. Præcipuum quippe Eboris commercium in regno magni Macoki per istos transigitur Homunciones; habitant in Sylvis, & mira dexteritate Elephantos sagittis conficiunt. Carnibus vescuntur, Dentes verô Jagis divendunt, illi autem Congentibus & Lusitanis.
"Mira!" exclaimed the Mexican, almost in the same breath "Mira! the signal-smoke of Wa-ka-ra! To horse! to horse! mueran los Arapahoes!" It was not the signal that called from my lips a convulsive exclamation. It was wrung from my agony, ere the smoke had been descried. It was drowned amidst the shouts of the savage warriors, as they crowded forward out of the chasm.
On arriving at Venice, the physicians recommending Madame Guiccioli to country air, they settled, still by her husband's consent, for the autumn at La Mira, where Moore and others found them domesticated. At the beginning of November the poet was prostrated by an attack of tertian fever.
"I used to sing Mira la bianca luna, once," replied Panshin, "but long ago; I have forgotten it." "Never mind, we will rehearse it in a low voice. Allow me." Varvara Pavlovna sat down at the piano, Panshin stood by her.
Instinctively and immediately she liked Helen Cumberly; and Helen felt that this strong-looking, vaguely masculine woman, was an old, intimate friend, although she had never before set eyes upon her. "H'm!" said Miss Ryland. She seated herself in an armchair. "Had of me from Mira?" asked Helen. "Yes... from Mrs. Leroux." "How delightful it must be for you to have her with you so often!
"Do look at her, dear, and see what a pretty, intelligent face she has. I want you to know how really friendly they mean to be." And still Mira shrank and trembled. The younger woman was a Minneconjou girl, with frank, attractive, almost pretty face.
"I wonder " murmured Janice; but said no more. "It's a scanderlous thing," Walky pursued, receiving his book back and preparing to join Josephus at the gate. "Goin' ter split things wide open in Polktown, I reckon. 'Twill be wuss'n a church row 'fore it finishes. Already there's them that says we'd oughter have another teacher in Mr. Haley's place." "Oh, my!" cried Aunt 'Mira.
In every trouble along her section of the shore it is "routine" to send for "Aunt" 'Mira. She has more sense and unselfishness and native wit than you would meet in ten products of civilization. For a year she acted as nurse to the little boy of one of the staff, and never was child better cared for. They once told 'Mira she really must make baby take his bottle. I does, ma'm," 'Mira replied.
When a little later they bore him, faint, unconscious from loss of blood, to his own roof at the agency, there was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears, Mira had fled with the McPhails with the first alarm, and was in hiding somewhere up at the cantonment.
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