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All on board expressed their alarm on discovering that the mariners deemed their position perilous; and the Earl, on learning how matters stood, appeared on deck, and summoned the master of the ship. 'In wonder's name, skipper, said he, sternly, 'how happens this?
The sooner we can say from our hearts 'She is lost here, the nearer is she to being found in another world. Yes, Antony dear, even Wonder's little shadow must be left behind, if we are to mount together the hills of life." "My wonderful Beatrice! Yes, the hills of life. No more its woods, but its hills, bathed in a vast and open sunshine. Look around us how nobly simple is every line and shape!
It is obvious from the Wonder's preliminary question, which had, indeed, also the quality of an assertion, how plainly he had recognised that Grossmann had been introduced under false pretences. But, it is permissible to infer that the pronouncement went deeper than that.
'Not that the things themselves are rich or rare, The wonder's how the devil they got there' in a word, how came the papers to be in that room? 'These must be Soane's rooms, he muttered at last, looking about him. 'And yet that's a woman's cloak. And that old cowskin bag is not Sir George's. It is odd. Ah! What is this?
He said, in confidence, that he was the electro-plated figurehead of a golden administration, and he watched in a dreamy, amused way Wonder's attempts to draw matters which were entirely outside his province into his own hands.
But by that time I had been very well informed as to all the essential facts of the Wonder's childhood, of his entry into the world of books, of his earlier methods, and of the significance of that long speech in the library. But at that point Challis became reserved. He would give me no details. "You must forgive me; I can't go into that," he said.
"When we are all cherubims together," said His Excellency once, "my dear, good friend Wonder will head the conspiracy for plucking out Gabriel's tail-feathers or stealing Peter's keys. THEN I shall report him." But, though the Viceroy did nothing to check Wonder's officiousness, other people said unpleasant things.
The library was never cleared up by any one except Challis or his deputy, but an early housemaid had been sent to dust, and she had left the casement of one of the lower lights of the window open. The means of the Wonder's entrance was thus clearly in evidence. "It's Napoleonic," murmured Challis.
I was not in love with the prospect which the sojourn now held out for me. If I were to be constituted head nursemaid to Master Victor Stott, there would remain insufficient time for the progress of my own book on certain aspects of the growth of the philosophic method. I see now, when I look back, that I was not convinced at that time, that I still doubted the Wonder's learning.
The Wonder's logic penetrated far into the mysteries of life and he may have seen that Grossmann's attitude was warped by the human limitations of his ambition to shine as a great exponent of science; that he dared not follow up a line of research which might end in the invalidation of his great theory of heredity.
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