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Talboys to call the very next day at one o'clock to see what was being done under cover of trigonometry. He found Mr. and Miss Fountain just sitting down to luncheon. David and Arthur were actually together somewhere, perhaps going through the farce of geometry. He was half vexed at finding no food for his suspicions.
All you can do, and be a man commendable to your own soul, is to take his subject and put your brain on it to such purpose that you cut pigeon wings around him. What are you studying in your classes, anyway?" "Trigonometry, Rhetoric, Ancient History, Astronomy," answered Donald. "And is your course the same as his?" inquired Linda. "Strangely enough it is," answered Donald.
Micklethwaite? asked Everard. 'I? Oh dear, no! I never got much past the Rule of Three. But Tom has forgiven me that long ago. 'I don't despair of getting you into plane trigonometry, Fanny. We will gossip about sines and co-sines before we die. It was said half-seriously, and Everard could not but burst into laughter.
You can imagine our disgust when we interviewed the Captain. "Not on your life!" he said decidedly. "Why, boys, I got two a 'em a-ready, one in Noo Bedford she's my lawful, and one a sort of 'erdeependence, in Sausalito. But boys, I don't go for to commit trigonometry, no sir!" Thunder rested on our brows but the Captain continued,
She went back to the problem in trigonometry and covered a page with figures, at which she gazed unseeingly. She was by no means happy. She went as far as the door, meaning to go down and kiss her parents good-night, but turned back. They were not a family for surface demonstrations.
Now luck has come to me, and I feel five-and-twenty. When I was really five-and-twenty, I felt forty. 'Well, what has that to do with money-making? 'After Mick's Algebra would follow naturally Mick's Arithmetic, Mick's Euclid, Mick's Trigonometry. Twenty years hence I should have an income of thousands thousands!
"You came on board us, somewhat unexpectedly, I rather conclude, Captain Marble?" commenced the gentleman. "Not in the least; I have been expecting to meet the Dawn, just about this spot, more than a month, now." "Well, that is odd! I do not comprehend how such a thing could well be foreseen?" "Do you understand spherical trigonometry, sir?"
Colonel Waugh had determined that of the summit by trigonometry to be 10,702 feet, which probably includes the trees which cover it, or some rocky peaks on the broad and comparatively level surface.
In my day, as I remember it, we used to think spherical trigonometry about the hardest stuff of the lot." She looked dubious. "I didn't elect mathematics," she said. "Oh," I said, "I see. So you don't have to take it. And what have you elected?" "For this coming half semester that's six weeks, you know I've elected Social Endeavour." "Ah," I said, "that's since my day, what is it?"
Said he still couldn't understand just how it happened, because he had figured it out by logarithms and trigonometry and differential calculus and a lot of other high-priced studies that he'd taken away from Harvard, and that it was a cinch on paper.
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