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The quiet which held the company through the recitation endured a space afterwards, and if the expression be allowed was in itself a commentary upon the performance. "Where is our worthy Professor of Rhetoric?" asked Constantine. "Here, Your Majesty," answered the man of learning, rising. "Canst thou not give us a lecture upon the story with which thy Arabian brother hath favored us?"
"I have heard what you could not tell me," I answered. "I have been to see Madame Patoff with the professor." "Not really? Oh, I am so glad! Now I can always talk to you about it. Did papa tell you? Why did he want you to go?" I briefly explained the circumstances of my seeing Madame Patoff in the Black Forest, and the hope that was entertained of her recognizing me.
About this time he heard of the work of Professor Steinach of Vienna in grafting the glands of rats, and producing changes in the character and appearance of the animals by inverting the process of nature and transplanting male glands into females, and vice versa, sometimes with success. He had followed with the greatest interest also the experiments of Dr.
"Will you be kind enough to see?" asked Ditson. "This is a personal matter something I want kept quiet." The barkeeper disappeared into a back room, was gone a few minutes, and then returned and said: "The professor is quite alone. Will you go up, sir?" "Y-e-s," said Roll, glancing around, and then motioning for the barkeeper to lead the way.
Professor Smith gave the two Houses of Parliament, Jowett, the Clergy, coupling with it the name of your friend Mr. Rogers on whom he showered every kind of praise, and Mr. Rogers returned thanks very characteristically and pleasantly.
"That means he has made a discovery;" and, full of anxiety, he hurried off to meet the professor. But, however great was his desire to ascertain what this discovery implied, his curiosity was not yet destined to be gratified. The professor kept muttering in incoherent phrases: "Rascal! he shall pay for it yet. I will be even with him! Cheat! Thrown me out!"
She need not have been so long about telling the thing. "She thinks that you are going to marry Paul?" observed the professor, with an interrogative intonation. "Well, if I did?" replied the young girl, after a short pause. "If she were in her right mind, would that be any reason for her wishing to murder him?" "No. But I never believed she was out of danger," said Cutter.
Perkins, Professor Grind and this Meiggs girl would enjoy themselves together, leaving him to share Smith's talk with Miss Graham, whose eyes had somehow an engaging twinkle. The idea was rudely dispelled by Miss Meiggs's immediate and decidedly personal attack. At least, he would have preferred to talk about other people, but he faced the music.
We have had some excellent scientific writers, from Bishop Watson to Professor Huxley; and some of the books of the century which would deserve remembrance and reading, whatever their subject matter, have been books of science.
Fancy, Fred, old chap, a wounded man with a bullet in him, and I at work with my black slave, Frank, here, to help me, in a dark tent, while I made the poor wretch transparent to find out where the bullet lay." "Yes, or broken spear-head," said the professor eagerly.
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