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But "Pat", the engineer, oiler of the domestic machinery of the establishment, and keeper of this menagerie, seems overcome with fatigue; the Astronomer is eclipsed in a corner; the professors are absorbed in sines and co-sines; the Fisherman nods over his paper; Grandma knits her brows and the stocking; Elsie is deep in a book; and no one displays any special interest in the matter until pencils and paper are distributed for the game of Crambo.
They have only to apply sines and co-sines, tangents and logarithms to a stock exchange quotation for me to grovel before their superior wisdom and consult them at every turn in life. Honoria had resolved to turn her great acquirements in Algebra and the Higher Mathematics to practical purposes. Moreover Honoria's purpose was two-fold.
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.
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