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"Have you any money?" demanded the woman, who did not seem to put much confidence in Perrine's appearance. "Yes, and I want one pound, please. Here is five francs. Will you give me the change?" Before cutting the bread the woman took up the five franc piece and examined it. "What! that!" she exclaimed, making it ring on the marble slab. "It's a five franc piece," said Perrine.
But Perrine's hearing was keen, and she understood that they were speaking of her. She heard the manager reply: "A young girl, about twelve or thirteen, who looks intelligent." "Come here, my child," said M. Paindavoine, in the same tone that she had already heard him use to Rosalie, and which was very different from that which he used for his employés. She felt encouraged and went up to him.
This crowd, between six and seven thousand people, reached outside the grounds to the public park, and the murmur of their voices had reached the ears of the blind man and had turned his attention from Perrine's story, great though it was. "What is it?" he asked.
The black dress, as worn as Perrine's skirt but not so dusty, for it had been brushed, was lying on the bed, and served for a cover. They found the seven francs and an Austrian coin. "How much does that make in all?" asked Perrine; "I don't understand French money." "I know very little more than you," replied her mother.
Burton and Green observed a dilatation of the stellar image into a nebulous patch by the transmission of its rays through a nuclear jet of the comet. Am. Cf. Perrine's negative results for Swift's comet in 1899, Astr. Astr. Pac. Not., vol. xlii., p. 14; Am. The transit had been foreseen by Mr. Ges., Jahrg. xxiv., p. 308; Bull. Cf. Not., vols. xxv., xxvi., xxviii. Cf. Astr. Pac. Astr. Pac.
This explanation appears all the more probable because one would naturally expect that flocks of meteors would abound in a close aggregation of stars. It is also consistent with Perrine's discovery that the globular star clusters are powdered with minute stars strewn thickly among the brighter ones.
The children, with cries of terror, flung themselves into Perrine's arms; even Gabriel uttered an exclamation of horror, and started back from the bedside. Still the old man reiterated, "The White Women! The White Women! Open the door, Gabriel! look-out westward, where the ebb-tide has left the sand dry.
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