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As a step toward kinetic theory of matter, it is certainly most interesting to remark that in the quasi-elasticity, elasticity looking like that of an India-rubber band, which we see in a vibrating smoke-ring launched from an elliptic aperture, or in two smoke-rings which were circular, but which have become deformed from circularity by mutual collision, we have in reality a virtual elasticity in matter devoid of elasticity, and even devoid of rigidity, the virtual elasticity being due to motion, and generated by the generation of motion.
Logan blew a smoke-ring more perfect than any that had gone before. "I'll calculate some tables," he said modestly. "You can use them on your computer-results. Then if you arrange your missiles to change their acceleration as they go, the Mekinese missiles can't intercept them."
You know, if we let Lane Fleming's killer get away with it, somebody might take that as a precedent and bump you off to win a lawsuit, sometime. Ever think of that?" When he returned to the gunroom, he found Gladys Fleming occupying the chair lately vacated by the family attorney. She blew a smoke-ring at him in greeting as he entered. "Now what was Hump Goode up to?" she wanted to know.
Ashton-Kirk comfortably blew one smoke-ring through another before he answered. "Will you be surprised to hear that I have been following Miss Edyth Vale on a little voyage to the neighborhood of Cordova?" "Again!" "But this time she did not pay a visit to Professor Locke. To-day the favored one was Allan Morris." "Morris! Then she knows where he is?" "So it would seem."
In place of this hypothesis has been substituted a very different idea, namely, that an atom is a vortex-ring of ether floating in the ether, as a smoke-ring puffed out by a locomotive in still air may float in the air and show various phenomena.
"Not young, certainly," he said, lighting another cigarette. "Nor complicated," she insisted; "you are built on straight lines; there are given things you can do and can't do, would do and would not do, and might do in an emergency. It is a fine kind of person to be, but it is not the kind which surprises itself." Rawson-Clew blew a smoke-ring into the air; he was smiling a little.
"No," continued he, lazily contemplating a smoke-ring in the moonlight; "her father and mother were only kukis, or something not far off it, and she, of course, is not rangatira, not a lady." "Oh!" cried Rakope and the others briskly, and joyously jumping to their feet, "that alters the case.
It is long before the "thunder" dies away, and we watch a gigantic smoke-ring, sprung from the mouth of the gun, float lazily out to the south; while the mueddzin's cry from the top of the mosque rises and falls on the waves of sound, drifting now clear, now faint, over the garden.
But you caught me shooting off guns in the grounds, and it was up to me to say something. He blew a smoke-ring and watched it dreamily till it melted in the draught from the ventilator. 'I'm Smooth Sam Fisher, he said. When two emotions clash, the weaker goes to the wall. Any surprise I might have felt was swallowed up in my relief.
"Your hair is very beautiful," said Theron, in the calm tone of a connoisseur. "I like it myself," Celia admitted, and blew a little smoke-ring toward him. "I've made this whole room to match it. The colors, I mean," she explained, in deference to his uplifted brows. "Between us, we make up what Whistler would call a symphony. That reminds me I was going to play for you.
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