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It could not have been better and, with his eye now on the horizon, now on the estuary near-by, he commenced to eat with gloomy avidity. He was inclined to feel sorry for himself, to indulge in self-pity. "Just the same, two and two always make four," he said to himself; "but in my calculations perhaps I have forgotten the surd. Ah, there was a time when I would not have overlooked anything.
A course in elocution was recommended to Brent by the managers, and he fell in with this plan delightedly, but after two or three elementary bouts with the vowel sounds, long and short, consonants, sonant and surd, he concluded that mere articulation could be made as laborious as sawing wood, and he discovered that it was incompatible with his dignity to be a pupil in an art in which he had professed proficiency.
"I'll punch your head by and by, Tom, if you're not quiet," I said. "Who made the surd absurd?" "Did you hear what I said?" "Yes. Oh, you lucky beggar! Who are you, I should like to know, to be having your riding lessons?" "Less talking there, Burr junior."
Professor Surd was at a faculty meeting. Would I wait? Yes, till all was blue, if need be. Miss Abbie? Abscissa had gone to Wheelborough to visit a school-friend. The aged maiden hoped I would make myself comfortable, and departed to the unknown haunts which knew Jocasta's daily walk. Comfortable!
She has cruelly said that her years demand of me filial rather than connubial regard. Is love a matter of years or of eternity? This question did I put to the cold, yet lovely Jocasta." "Jocasta Surd!" I remarked in surprise, "Abscissa's aunt!" "The same," he said, sadly. "I will not attempt to conceal that upon the maiden Jocasta my maiden heart has been bestowed.
On that particular morning, I was, what fat Dicksee called, "catching it," and I was listening gloomily to my teacher's attempts at being witty at my expense. "How a boy can be so stupid," he said, "is more than I can grasp. It is perfect child's play, and yet you have gone on getting the problem into a hopeless tangle a ridiculous tangle. You have made a surd perfectly absurd, and "
We will go to the west of the Mississippi and find some suitably level locality. We will erect thereon a model Tachypomp. We will summon thereunto the professor, his daughter, and why not his fair sister Jocasta, as well? We will take them a journey which shall much astonish the venerable Surd. He shall place Abscissa's digits in yours and bless you both with an algebraic formula.
The surd in experience its non-ideal element is not an indifferent vehicle for what it brings, as would be implied by calling it pure feeling or absolute consciousness. Nor is it an act accepting or rejecting objects, as would be implied by calling it will.
"Well, Mr Slegge," said the mathematical master, with his ghastly smile coming back, "now if this were a question of a surd in a compound equation I should be happy to tell you; but as soon as the captive is taken again, and the `lark, as you call it, is over, I should recommend you to ask Mr Rampson.
The Polish Pan, Pani, and Panna correspond roughly to the English Mr., Mrs., and Miss. As an aid to the pronunciation of the minor names the following directions may be of some service:— Accent all names on the penult, or next to the last syllable. W is ordinarily pronounced as v, but before surd consonants it has the sound f.
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